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There is significant confusion around 'Title' vs 'Summary' e.g. Solved: Meaning of Description, Summary, Text.. etc. (atlassian.com) in part i believe this is because within a Jira ticket, 'summary is placed where universally you would expect to see a title... (at the very top)
Further, this is more of a problem especially in Roadmaps where this uses 'Summary' field rather than the Title - Summaries are typically sentences or paragraphs long, and are completely not suitable to identify Issues in a ~1 inch space on a gantt chart. This should really be 'Issue Title', although i suspect the difficulty will be because you have names the fields 'Epic Title', 'Story Title' etc. which makes it more difficult?
My suggestions are therefore:
1 - allow configuration of the Title to be used within Roadmaps, rather than default 'summary'
2 - allow users to place 'Title' at the top of the page, and summary to be placed above 'description'
- links to
[JSWSERVER-25181] Summary v Title - Roadmaps and Jira
thanks, have upvoted.
btw, what are 'lozenges' except for a sticky cough sweet ? 
I have created an Enhancement here https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JPOSERVER-7244 to complement this one. Hopefully Atlassian will consider the two together and right this wrong
I totally agree with the comments by @Kerrie and @Keren Waters. Replacing the Epic Name (Epic Title) by the Epic Summary forced me to update all our epics to make the summary the same as the title/name. As mentioned above, both the summary and title have a different purpose.
I hope the distinction between the longer summary and shorter title name will be introduced again in a way that does not add the complexity that - apparently - used to be in the software.
unless i am missing it, I don't appear to be able to edit my OP 
if you are to raise a seperate thread though consider upvoting this and can return on yours too
Ah good spot Karen! I wonder if the OP @gary carter might consider adding that to this enhancement? If not i am happy to log a new one
The suggestion above only refers to showing Epic Summaries or Titles in Roadmaps. This same issue now exists in Backlogs and Sprints due to a recent change by Atlassian to display Epic Summaries instead of Titles. I agree with the suggestion but think it needs to be expanded to specify that Epic Title is used in Backlog and Sprint interfaces also.
The forced change to displaying Epic Summaries instead of Epic Titles has been a frustration for our Team. I agree that a 'summary' by nature is a sentence or paragraph NOT a short Title for use in lozenges.
I understand Jira's desire to align things for company managed projects but forcing this change on all users with no configuration option was short sighted
You even state 'That’s why we’re looking at providing you with the flexibility to shape our tools to the way you work' but what you have done is the opposite of providing flexibility!
Please provide a configuration option
Dear all,
I would like to inform you that this issue in the project JPOSERVER is being migrated to the new project JSWSERVER. Your votes and comments will remain unchanged.
Our team at Atlassian will continue to monitor this issue for further updates, so please feel free to share your thoughts or feedback in the comments.
Sincerely,
Aakrity Tibrewal
Jira DC