Documentation for JIRA 4.4. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.
By default, it is not possible to edit an issue while in the "Closed" state. If you would like to allow editing of closed issues, this can be done by editing the workflow (see Configuring Workflow), and removing the jira.issue.editable
flag from the Closed step. The steps are as follows:
jira
system workflow) or draft of the workflow, and edit that.jira.issue.editable
property with value false
. Delete it, or set the value to true.Note
You can use the jira.issue.editable
flag to enable/disable editing of issues at any step (not just the 'Closed' step).