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As someone whose team just got bitten - again - by Jira descriptions being overwritten by an unwitting user with unsaved changes, I feel you. I just can’t imagi
by trentnix 4y ago
As someone whose team just got bitten - again - by Jira descriptions being overwritten by an unwitting user with unsaved changes, I feel you. I just can’t imagine why it isn’t easy to recover a previous description and its formatting. Jira solves the larger collaboration problems, but blows it on the small stuff.
I spent the next hour fuming and imagining how it would work if it was done right (i.e. the way I thought it should work). Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.
I soon sobered up, realizing I had neither time nor patience (or talent, maybe) to build it right.
Respect to you for rolling your own.
- bigtones 4y agoIt is very easy to recover a previous version of the description field in Jira. Jira keeps a full change log / audit log of every change to the description field and other fields. You can definitely roll back to an old version of the description field or see what changes were made and when by whom. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jira/jira_view_change_history.htm https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jira/jira_view_change_history...
- systemicdanna 4y agoThis is one of those cases when Jira is suffering from its UI/IA mess. It has lots of good feature but the discoverability is horrendous, which leads to so much user (my) confusion.
- trentnix 4y agoI have a history tab on the Jira issue, so I can see my previous description, stripped of formatting. I should be able to cut and paste or press a button to restore the description, but no.
- tonypham 4y agoThanks so much for sharing your experiences.