How to change text custom field to rich text editor

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Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Server and Data Center platforms.

Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Purpose

The rich text editor is available on description fields, comment fields, and text field (multi-line) custom fields. This document explains how to enable wiki style renderer for the custom field.

Solution

  1. Please make sure Rich text editing is enabled
  2. Create a custom field with “Text Field (multi-line)“ field type and associate the field to the appropriate screens.

  3. Now access the project you are using the custom field on.
  4. Move to Project settings > Fields
  5. Click Actions > Edit fields
  6. Click Renderers option next to the custom field name

  7. Select Wiki Style Renderer and Update

  8. You can see the field is changed to rich text editor

Mention feature is not available for text custom fields.

Last modified on Apr 6, 2022

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