Hi Karol,

please take a look at this https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/CATAT/Commenting+on+Attachments

If you get interested in our app, please drop an email to vrutkevich@stiltsoft.com.

When can we have this implemented?

This bug is not fixed at all. Why is it closed?

Oh look, this issue was closed without being properly resolved and now it is closed we can't add any more votes to it.

Replacement issues are still open, but of course they have far fewer votes.

Sure we could buy an add-on to do this, but it really should form a basic part of the jira comment mechanism.

I've just had to manually add in a link because a comment to one of my tickets made no sense. I also wasted ages trying to work out how to make a text file (actually a python script) display inline, but the documentation steadfastly refuses to explain how to do that.

Here is the incredibly useful comment I saw:

Blah. Blah.

The solution is to do this is

A completely unrelated comment

It was only when I noticed that there was an attachment added in the same comment e-mail that I realised that the solution was in the attached script.

Wouldn't it have been so much easier if the comment had been created as:

Blah. Blah.

The solution is to do this is [^filename.py]

A completely unrelated comment.

I think that everyone who voted on this issue should now vote on JRA-34927 and see if we can get something done about it.

Hello, community.
You can try our add-on Smart Attachments, which allows you to see comment icons next to the names of attached files. When pointing to the icon, you can see the comment, which was left by the uploader. You can download the add-on from https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.jira.smart-attachments.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Vadim Rutkevich [StiltSoft]

@all

please vote on JRA-34927 in order to speed this up

Email Only; for what its worth, JEMH can auto generates comments with file download links and image thumbnail wiki markup as well as render images full size inline for emails containing attachments.

activity stream is not a viable substitute for the requested feature - attachments should have comments/description associated with them on the page.

Agreeing with Philip and Dieter - there needs to be an outlet for requests to improve this feature.

In our JIRA 5.0 installation, the default tab panel is Comments. I'm presented with confusing comments that were intended to be associated with attachments, but aren't; and attachments that were intended to have associated comments, but don't. Both are bewildering. Never in my wildest dreams would I guess that to find out which goes with which, I would click on "Activity". (Not "Activity Stream" anymore, contra what Bryan wrote.) Even once my coworker and I learned that it was under "Activity Stream", it took us a good while to find that tab on the issue page. The "All" tab also includes this information, if you know what to look for, but it's still far from clear that a given comment goes with a particular attachment.

We have non-IT customers who we are trying to help use JIRA, to facilitate the workflow of requesting features, prioritizing issues, and user testing and closing issues. They already resent being asked to learn another IT system, and difficult-to-use features like this discourage them from believing it's worthwhile.

I'm not saying this is necessarily easy to fix. I am saying that it's a major forehead-slapper for people who use JIRA. (Especially those who come here and realize the issue has been known for almost 9 years.) And there needs to be a new issue where people can request improvement.

(Update: I added JRA-27872 to track the part of this issue that hasn't been addressed. Since you can't vote for this one, feel free to vote for that one.
Then I found these other related issues:
JRA-1062: Attachment icon in comments
JRA-3594: Ability to add a description to an attachment (instead of a comment?)
JRA-21394: Automatically include attachment link in attachment comment)