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Jira how to make Work Description required

Omprakash Thamsetty
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February 27, 2019

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can make "work Description" as required when logging the hours in Jira.

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February 28, 2019

Hi

I think it is not possible, see this issue https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-8751

However you can implement custom javascript code that check description field every time when work log screen is submitted.

You do not need scriptrunner for this

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March 17, 2020

Could you share in details how this can be done without scriptrunner?

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