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The "Description" field have stopped appearing on my edit screen for a single project

Nathan Vinicius Vital Santos October 14, 2025

One of my teams have just reported that they can't edit a description field anymore.

 

I've verified:
-their permission scheme, they have their permissions correct

-their Field Screen for Editing, "description" is added,

-the field configuration is enabled for this project,

-the 'configure fields' option on the edit screen, it is already selected.

 

The field works while creating an issue and it appears on the ServiceDesk view inside the project.

It even have the edit button appearing, but once clicked it opens the Edit Issue screen where the field is missing.

The "where is my field?" helper says that it should appear on the screen.

 

Does anyone have any knowledge of this problem?

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Marc - Devoteam
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October 14, 2025

HI @Nathan Vinicius Vital Santos 

See the issue type screen schem, what kind of issue type is the issue and check the screen scheme used on the issue type, then check the screens in the screen scheme and validate that the description field is on the edit screen.

Or check the system fields section in Jira administration and see if there are any context set on the field description that coudl cause this.

Nathan Vinicius Vital Santos October 14, 2025

I've done that, the issue type have the Description field on it's view/edit screen already.

 

There's 0 contexts for this field on the admin field.

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October 15, 2025

Hi @Nathan Vinicius Vital Santos 

Other options to check?

  • Within the field configuration on the project is the field not set to hidden?
  • Did you use the whee is my field option on an issue, what is the response?
  • What screens are set in the screen scheme within the issue type screen for the issue type where this occurs (screenshots wil help)
  • Is there an Issue Security scheme active on the project?
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Florian Bonniec
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October 14, 2025

Hi @Nathan Vinicius Vital Santos 

 

Do you have apps such as Scriptrunner. Someone may have created a Behaviour that hide the field on the edit screen.

Regards

 

Nathan Vinicius Vital Santos October 14, 2025

I do, but i already have checked everything every behaviour used on that project.

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