Configuring Advanced Settings

JIRA has a small number of commonly edited advanced configuration options, which are stored in the JIRA database. These options can be accessed and edited from the Advanced Settings page. You must be a JIRA System Administrator to do this.

Editing JIRA's advanced settings

To access and edit options on the 'Advanced Settings' page:

1. Log in as a user with the JIRA System Administrators global permission.
2. Choose > System. Select General Configuration to open the Administration page.
   Keyboard shortcut: g + g + start typing general configuration
3. Click the Advanced Settings button on the 'General Configuration' page to display this page:
   

4. Edit the value of a Key/Property by clicking its value on the right of the page and modifying the existing value.
   Refer to the Key configuration column for more information about the Keys/Properties.

   Key	Key configuration
   jira.attachments.number.of.zip.entries	Configuring the number of files shown in the content of ZIP-format files on issues
   jira.clone.prefix	Configuring the cloned issue summary field prefix
   jira.date.picker.java.format jira.date.picker.javascript.format jira.date.time.picker.java.format jira.date.time.picker.javascript.format	Configuring date picker formats
   jira.issue.actions.order	Changing the Default Order for Comments from Ascending to Descending
   jira.projectkey.pattern	Changing the Project Key Format
   jira.table.cols.subtasks	Configuring sub-task fields displayed on parent issues
   jira.view.issue.links.sort.order	Configuring the order of linked issues displayed on the 'view issue' page
   jira.text.field.character.limit	This property limits the number of characters that can be entered into Description, Environments, Comments and text custom fields. The maximum is 2147483647. A value of 0 means unlimited characters.

5. Click the Update button (which will appear in the Operations column on the right) to save the new value in the JIRA database.
   Please Note:
   
   • Any changes you make to these properties/keys become effective immediately.
   • Click the General Settings button to return to the General Configuration page.

Related information

There are a handful of other advanced configuration options (which are of little interest to most JIRA system administrators) whose default values can be customized in the jira-config.properties file located in the JIRA Home Directory, which you may want to edit. For details, please see Advanced JIRA configuration.