Hi All! If you're like me one of the first things you tried was utilizing the new checkboxes in automation. It seems the markup did not make it there. Please vote on this feature request to show your support for it!

HI 8ab0221c86ae! I just tested and writing [] and hitting space results in an Action item being added to the row. Can you confirm this works the same for you?

• Edit: if you are referring to get the markdown to work through an automation rule, the best would be to raise a support request to look at the scenario and understand if its something our Automation team needs to look at.

2239430e27fb as c2bc407e9e90 mentioned, the markdown support for action items doesn't seem to work.

Any variation of '[]' , '[ ]' , '[x]' etc just get rendered as regular text in fields that use wiki-renderer.

Which means this doc is inaccurate: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/markdown-and-keyboard-shortcuts/ 

Thanks for the update c2bc407e9e90!

I'm very excited that I can finally use this feature in Jira (rather than having to add a comment or update ticket description when working through a task).

For those wondering, top-right there's `People.Watchers` section where you can unsubscribe from the thread

Hello c40823838df6. There are no wiki markdown codes for Action Items.

Only Atlassian can advise if they will ever be provided, or if creating Action Items will require interacting with the v3 API endpoints and using ADF markup.

c2bc407e9e90 did you manage to figure out how to render Action Items with markdown? I'm currently writing an automation that changes the description of stories to add a DoR and DoD. Having these as lists would be awesome, but all I'm getting is "[]" in the rendered view  

Well, Action Items (checkboxes) have been released for Jira cloud. When using the GUI, users can type a left and right square bracket in a rich text field, such as Description, and they will get a checkbox that also supports inline mentions.

However, there is no documentation yet to say if there is a wiki markdown equivalent for use with automations. Putting a set of left and right square brackets into markdown encoded text will just be rendered as normal text '[]'.

Although the documentation for Atlassian Document Format markup doesn't show how to construct the new taskList and taskItem Nodes, if you are comfortable with ADF markdown and interacting with the V3 REST API endpoints, I've outlined the basic format for creating Action Items in the original article in the Atlassian Community forum.

Apart from that, it's a wait-and-see situation for the time being.

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I stopped watching this issue because of the annoying "+1" comments. Just "Vote" people.

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9 years in the making, but we're getting there!

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+1. seems basic enough as it already works in Confluence

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In Progress! Hooray!

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It will be a huge plus if we have this feature and not relying on additional Add-ons. 

The suggestion is here since 2015, so hope there will be any update from Atlassian soon.

+1 Please add checkboxes or the Confluence Action Item list to Jira Cloud!!

Would be such a simple yet very helpful feature. +💯 (as some are complaining we should not add a "+1" only)

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+1 (be nice if this was a native feature)

UPDATE: In the meantime this free add-in seems to do the trick

https://shopgrok.atlassian.net/jira/marketplace/discover/app/com.herocoders.plugins.jira.issuechecklist-free?installDialogOpen=true&source=mpac

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A checkbox options would be infinitely easier than adding Sub-tasks and transitioning each item to done.

+ 1. Easy way to make sure all checks are in place

It'd be nice to have this. Useful when describing db migrations, having a checklist of tasks to be completed in order is a must for not botching production.

I also see other people mentioning external plugins here. We tried some of them - they mostly suffer from 2 things: not well integrated (ie ability to include inline other fields), and they make issue page loading times feel even slower (using Jira Cloud) because it takes another ajax request or two to fetch the bullet lists

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+1 What's the most basic way to track progress through a task/project? A checklist
Let's build a project tracking solution that doesn't have the most basic way to track progress. Brilliant.

It's important for this feature to be available in other text fields - not just Description. I will put checklists in our custom Notes field.

Just rendering the checklist markdown properly is a win for me. But, like others have written, having the UI react properly to clicking the checkbox will be much better.

Please - can we stop adding „+1“? It's not going to help anyone but spams all accounts of people watching this feature request. Voting is in the top right corner (at least on desktop). Adding comments isn't going anywhere.

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+1 every other similar product has this!

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Erik, there are several checklist/ToDo apps for Jira on Atlassian Marketplace, including free ones: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?moreFilters=free&query=checklist

Maybe one of them will be helpful to you until Atlassian decides to work on this ticket. Using Confluence or subtasks sounds like an overkill in your case.

(Disclaimer: my company created one of the checklist apps)

We use Jira for test procedures, so the ability to use checkboxes within Wiki rendered text fields would be a really great addition. At the moment, sometimes we are creating a confluence page with the test procedure (because checkboxes are possible in confluence) and linking it to the Jira issue, which isn't ideal. 

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This would be super helpful and it seems like low-hanging fruit.

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since 02/Dec/2015 🤷‍♂️

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Just adding my vote for this feature.  There are many occasions where creating actual subtasks are major overkill and I want to be able to maintain a checklist in the task body itself.

+1 acceptance criteria are not tasks but are every bit as important.

this would be very helpful. 

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Agreed, this would be a great feature to have–without add-ons or marketplace apps.

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