Remove/hide "Description" section from issue overview

[Emile van den Ende]

Hi,

Does anyone now a trick to hide the entire section on an issue which is called "Description"?

For this issue type (bug), I don't use or show the description field on the create issue screen, but still it shows up on the overview screen.

It does not really bother, but if it's empty always, why leave it there, right? I just want to hide it from this screen...

Thanks!

Emile

[Emile van den Ende · Accepted solution]

Ok guys, thanks for your answers, I guess it cannot be done in OnDemand.

[Ash Bladon]

You can hide it in on demand.  I remember doing this five-six years ago so I don't think it's new.  If you only want to do it for one project, then you'd need to create a new field config scheme and apply it to that project - with description set as 'hidden' in the field config.  

[Jo-Anne MacLeod]

I bet that you can modify the code in here, https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/PIGKBw to do what you want.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

not in onDemand I guess!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Just hide it in the field configurations.

[Emile van den Ende]

Hi Jobin,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply!

I probably forgot 1 key piece of information:

it's not about the field actually, it's about the "description" section in the overview. Just like you see "details" and "attachments" as sections.

Is there a place where I can change this and move some fields around in those sections? (moving some fields from "details" to "description" would also be a very acceptable solution for me).

Thanks again!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

If the field Description is hidden, the whole section goes away. But to move the fields around, you need to modify the view issue plugin which is bundled in JIRA.

I have written a post about modifying bundled plugins here:

http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2012/05/modifying-atlassian-bundled-plugins.html

[Emile van den Ende]

I have hidden the description field, but no luck...the section still remains.

I use the OnDemand version of Jira, so no option to modify the bundled plugins.

Is there something else I can try to make the section go away?

Thanks!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I have hidden the description field, but no luck...the section still remains.

Strange because I see IsFieldHiddenCondition in the code. There is no other option in onDemand.

[Emile van den Ende]

Ok, then probably there is no way it can be done? Damn :)