Why is in line editing disabled?

[George Carvill]

In the full edit screen (but not the Greenhopper scrum board) I can suddenly no longer do inline editing. I could last week.

I tried another user's machine, same thing.

I get a bubble that says "Inline edit disabled."

Happens on both Chrome and Firefox.

[George Carvill · Accepted solution]

Turned out to be a conflict (bug) with the JIRA Behaviors plugin.

[James Porter]

did you find out how to resolve the bug?

[Fabio Turati]

I suppose the bug you are talking about is https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/browse/JBHV-201. Or is it another one?

[George Carvill]

Ah, I found something...

If the 'Description' field contains a URL, it disables inline editing for all fields. Remove the URL and inline editing is restored. Add it back, inline editing is disabled.

[George Carvill]

I filed it as a bug with Atlassian.

[Radek Janata]

I had a similar issue. No URL in the Description, no Behaviour plugin. Inline editing didn't work in Firefox. It worked OK in IE and Chrome.

I tried to delete various temporary data but to no effect. Finally I tried to clean up settings all at once and it worked to me. Here are the steps:

• close all opened tabs with your Jira
• go to Options -> Privacy -> Clear your recent history
  • Time range to clear: Everything
  • check Cache
  • check Offline Website Data
• go to Options -> Privacy -> Remove individual cookies
  • find and delete all related Jira cookies
• restart Firefox

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The easy answer - you've turned it off! (Or, rather, one of your other admins has turned it off). Check Admin -> General Configuration

Also, chek that the inline fields you want to edit are included on the "edit" screen.

[George Carvill]

Yes, that is the easy answer. Unfortunately, it is not the right one. :-)

I checked that first. It is turned ON, always hsa been. And the fields are included n the edit screen. And, yes, they are included on the edit screen.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, we have to state the more obvious stuff, just in case :-)

Nicely spotted that one. My guess is that the inclusion of a url is messing up the whizzy script stuff that provides the in-lone edit. I don't remember seeing this before though.