User Preference to disable in-line editing

[Brian Harvell]

We just upgraded to Jira 5.1.5 from 4.4.4 and while most users love the in-line editing a few are vehemently against it. They claim they are used to clicking and dragging on the page and now they end up making edits they didn't intend. While I personally think they will get used to it, it would be nice to make in-line editing a user preference vs only a global setting. A user wouldn't be able to turn it on from their preferences if it wasn't enabled globally but they should be able to turn it off if the global setting is turned on.

Note: This is required because some of your customers may be using tricks to control who can edit a field. Since Jira does not include field level security on who can edit anyone who is using custom screens via workflow actions would not be able to turn on in-line editing otherwise everyone with edit rights on the ticket would be able to change any visible field.

[Jeison · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

I like your idea, and took the liberty of raising an improvement request on jira.atlassian.com: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-30024.

You can vote for it to raise its visibility, and add yourself as a watcher, to keep track of the process.

Other than that, there's another improvement request here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-28937, that aims for making inline editing of fields accessible by double-click instead of single-click, which, I believe, could also be helpful given the situation you described.

Hope it helps!