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What is the character limit in the JIRA summary field?

Patané
Patané February 8, 2022

What is the character limit in the JIRA summary field?

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Mark Segall
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February 8, 2022

Hi @Patané 

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Patané
Patané February 8, 2022

Thank you very much ️Mark!

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Ismail Sanni
Ismail Sanni
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February 8, 2022

Hi @Patané ,

You could create a custom text field and make it required if you want to have a summary field with unlimited characters.

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Joe Pitt
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February 8, 2022

Description is unlimited

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Ismail Sanni
Ismail Sanni
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February 8, 2022

@Joe Pitt True talk...Thanks 

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Description is not unlimited by default. Description is a long text that defaults to max 32767 characters. This is not editable in Jira Cloud but it can be maxed out to 2147483647 in Jira Data Center. If you want unlimited: set it to 0. 

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