Why is Fix/Version field missing on the bulk edit page?

[Philip Culver]

I noticed that when you bulk edit items, if you have items from more than one JIRA project being edited - the Fix/ Version field does not display. I was wondering why that is? In this scenario, all the projects involved use the Fix/Version field. 

The field displays when I bulk edit items within the same project.

Thanks.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Versions are local to projects.  So you can't set versions cross-project.

[Philip Culver]

Thanks for the response. Nic. I've used JIRA for 5 years and didn't know that... :/ 

I appreciate the info.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's the sort of quirk that makes sense, but you never think about it until you run into it!

[Philip Culver]

Absolutely. I'm actually a little embarrassed I posted the question after seeing your response. :)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I wouldn't be - it took me until version 4 to notice it myself.  I started with version 2...

[mattdawson1]

Can confirm! Still the case in 2019. Ty for the tip!

[Deleted user]

This is not entirely true. I create cross-project releases which in turn creates a version in each project. Up until last week I was able to bulk change the Fix/Version across multiple projects. Looks recent that it was removed.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jira doesn't have "cross project versions", so I'm curious as to what you think you were doing there.

[Deleted user]

In our Portfolio Plan View (we're on the hosted plan) I can create cross-project releases which will automatically create a release for each project. I could previously take a mixture of issues within those projects and bulk update the Fix/Version. I had to release each one individually, but I could create them together. 

[April]

Yeah, that's exactly what we did. Each version exists in all projects of category X (thanks ScriptRunner Version Listener!) and Portfolio has the cross-project version.

Yet, bulk edit is too stupid to allow setting either the local project's fix version or the Portfolio cross-project version. 

This seems like it would be a fairly common use case...

[Kristen Maguire]

Yes, this is a fairly common use case. It is annoying that it is necessary to go to each project to do the bulk update. :-(