This is f-ing ridiculous - issue opened 18 years ago and there is still no solution - one more reason to migrate away from JIRA

Please add this feature as it's needed. We need to manually go to all the team members and get it corrected for each of the worklog entries that are missed.

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For God's sake … 17 years and counting. Get it done Atlassian!

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some of our partners pay us based on worklogs and it's mandatory to add a comment. if our guys forget to add the comment, we're not getting paid for the invested time. 

I know this is none of Atlassian's concern, but if we could make the description field mandatory via a setting, we would completely mitigate this financial risk.

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Possible to have a look on this ??

Really needed

We really need this function, we do not understand why there is no solution for this.

Badly needed!!!

Atlassian, don't arbitrarily decide for us what fields are required and what aren't, or at least tell us why you don't think it should be required and what we should do differently if we find that we do require it.

Same we need really this option please.

Linked to: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-35422

At least add an option in your new automation rules. It will empoyer your customer to use this new feature and bring to use the possibility to make work description mandatory.

@fjodors Could you please provide the JS code that work in announcement banner to make work description field mandatory, if you have one. We are also looking for this functionality.

I need also this functionality, asap if possible

Hi Jan
As workaround you can add your custom script (e.g. JS code in announcement banner) that rewrites standard work log form submit and makes work description field mandatory.

Wow! This was created 2009 and still not been implemented. It is hard for managers to see time spent of person that are just blank, they need to approach those users and ask what was done during this time spent.

Is there a work around we could do to force this as required for a particular project or instance?

This will be a good feature for big organizations to keep up the work done.

I would also like to see this feature. It is more or less a necessity for billing purposes.

AOL on this.

Some use the Jira Suite plugin for changing what's required during closing of an issue or other status change, but AFAICT, that won't help if work is logged without a status change.

There's also the 3rd party Kaamelot extension, which based on the comments appears to be very hard to get to work, especially with configurations not matching those of the author.

Being able to see the fields of the "Log Work Done" screen in the field browser, and change whether they are required or not would be very helpful. That's surely where this configuration change belongs.