Allowlist and Blocklist attachment type in Jira

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    Atlassian Update - 31 July 2024

    Hi everyone,

    Thank you for raising and voting on this suggestion. Your feedback is invaluable in shaping and enhancing Jira for all users. Given the high volume of feature suggestions for Jira, we must prioritize those that provide the most value to the majority of our users. After a thorough review by the team, we have decided that we will not be able to implement this suggestion in the immediate future.

    Please remember that jira.atlassian.com is only one of many inputs for our roadmap. We’re continuously learning, analysing and interviewing customers to make Jira better. We encourage you to also share your feedback through Atlassian Community. Please also check out latest updates and upcoming plans from the Jira Cloud roadmap and the Atlassian Cloud release notes blog.

    We understand that our decision may be disappointing. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or feedback.

    Regards,

    Ahmud
    Product Manager-Issue View 

     

    Problem Definition

    JIRA currently allows all type file upload as attachment and currently cannot restrict attachments to certain file types.

    Suggested Solution

    A feature to allowlist and blocklist attachment so that only certain type of attachment are allowed to be uploaded in JIRA issues

    Workaround

    • Use an automation rule similar to the following to validate the extension of the file and delete it (if required). The following automation rule will delete any unwanted attachment filetypes when uploaded onto the description only;

     

    The regular expression used in the automation rule above (considering only jpg/gif/doc/pdf extensions are allowed);

    ^.*\.(jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|doc|DOC|pdf|PDF)$ 

     

          Assignee:
          Ahmud Auleear
          Reporter:
          Shan Sharma Manimaran (Inactive)
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