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Changing the Default Order for Comments from Ascending to Descending

Created by JoachimA, last updated by Jeremy Largman on Jan 18, 2010 1 minute read

To change the default order from Ascending to Descending so that the latest comments are shown first, follow these steps:

Edit <JIRA_install>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties.
Change jira.issue.actions.order=asc to jira.issue.actions.order=desc
Restart JIRA.

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