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I truly can´t believe you cannot adjust the column width

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The issue is removing the column next to the cell that contains an extra-long description of the AD account being pulled from AD  via script. 

Is anything happening here?

In my dashboard - it is completely inconsistent.  Two different Jira query tables, same field in the same order, different column width of summary.

It appears, to get maximum column width, you need a big URL.  Otherwise the column width is shrunk to the largest word...  (This assumes you have a lot of fields you are reporting on).

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Each time I decide to add sprints to be displayed in a column in the issue navigator, a piece of me dies. 

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is that issue related also to Jira cloud?

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Are there any workarounds for this that people know of?

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+1 - after 15 years ... what's the holdup?

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Please provide a way to do this.
This could help to give my customers a quick state of the project.
E.g. Some of my state-names are longer and they are truncated in the list.

if somebody has develop the plugin or have some idea to develop this plugin,please let me know.let's do it.

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Pretty Please!

guys, this is from 2005. 43 comments and 148 votes. how much more interest do you need?

+1 this is a simple thing for reporting purposes.

Just wasted 1 hour of my time trying to find an answer to how to change column widths, as couldn't believe it's not a function available.  Even some explanation on why Jira choosing to wrap text for some fields, and no others of similar lengths.  

Please consider this, for basic users - it's something that will delight instead of frustrate them.   

Side question: does anyone know how many votes are roughly needed to even get Jira team to look at this?  

Since it has been 13 years, I developed a solution that adds extra effort but works for me.  For the multiline fields that tend to get a lot of text, I pre-insert a invisible table and specify the width.  When users add the text and save, the specified width carries over to the Issue Navigator.

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+1 for this feature.

I can't believe that THIRTEEN YEARS after this was requested, it still hasn't been done.

(Well, OK, to be honest, I can believe it, because this is Jira we're talking about.  Customer feedback goes into a black hole.)

But still, even for Jira, this is egregious.  It's hard to think of a piece of software that displays data in tables that doesn't have this simple and straightforward functionality, whether with drag handles on the columns or a way to set widths by numbers or whatever.  If the Jira code is so bad that this can't be done without breaking everything, then maybe it's high time to throw away the Jira code and start over.

+1 for this feature (laptop and pad user)

+1 for this feature.

We also urgendly need this feature for users in our company who have only small (12'') screens in order to allow focusing on columns of interest.

If we cannot provide a state of the art view the tool will not be accepted and thus be dropped.

Without this feature, lists in Jira are practically unusable.  Come on.  what products now a days don't have column resizing that sticks and is even somewhat intelligent?!

Yet another MUST HAVE feature that has been open for YEARS!

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Same here. I've moved to the new Jira interface and the Issue Navigator still wants to autowidth columns according to some algorithm. In my case, I need to see Labels, but can't because the Label contents are being truncated because the column width is too narrow.

becoming a huge issue for us, hard to believe this hasn't been addressed since originally posted.

I need a fix for this, my screen is not big enough to see past the descriptions bc they are too long, and barely wrap.... i would like to see the full column list... please update ASAP!  How on earth is this ticket closed?  

+1 New user trying to learn the system and wondering why this function is not available.

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+1 I've had problems with the columns randomly resizing down to where there is no space between the key and the description which makes it extremely difficult to read and select keys to copy/paste. This would fix that problem, or you could fix the resizing so it doesn't remove all the whitespace, or you could make it so linking can find issues even when they aren't recently viewed.

+1  Hard to believe this is not supported!!!

Yes please make this. Having several filter results above each other is a pain because they wont line up.

how about instead of working on your details view you listen to your customers and add a simple column resizing function in the list view, which is clearly what alot of your customers use, since they are requesting this change.

Little things like this, are what jira is lacking.. Jira is a very powerful tool but its held back by simple things that are mind boggling why they have not been implemented and still not implemented 10 years after the issue was raised..

When you work on large projects which have replaced your excel trackers sometimes you need to still visibly view the issues in the same way excel presented them.

Jira is great, apart from the hundreds of little let downs which sometimes makes customers question why they invested so much money in an application that cant do something excel has done for nearly 20 years?

As working in Excel came up multiple times, let me mention that the Better Excel Plugin preserves the manually set column widths in Excel exports.

If that gives you a better view or you primarily want to share the tabular view, just create a XLS template file, set the column widths in Excel and the add-on will this up with issue data without changing the column widths. (The built-in issue-navigator.xlsx template does an "auto-fit" on the exported table, but this can be turned off. Your custom templates will not "auto-fit".)

• See the customization guide