When will this be released?

This would be huge. Currently our roadmapping process entails mapping out 18 months in advance across dozens of teams. We create all of the epics and slap on fix versions, but the most important piece of this is the business justification.

When stakeholders are capacity planning, they want to look at the roadmap and understand in one view exactly what the epic means and what it entails so they can properly assess and allocate resources to the epic.

When new priorities come in, epics may need to be shifted around. They need the business justification of the epic in order to properly make this decision.

Right now, the only way for us to accommodate them is to do it all in Excel. We create the epics, add the links in Excel, and write up the additional justification all in Excel. Then as PMs, we go back into Jira and manage our day to day.

Short text fields can only give so much context to the stakeholders to make the right decision. Eventually they setup meetings with the PMs, or just tell us to put it into Excel.

Ideally we can leverage the Jira Plan for this entire collaboration, but we need paragraph fields in order to make it happen.

We need this feature to present status summaries.

Can we get an idea of where this is in the roadmap OR if there is a workaround available other than the single text field?  I can't even wrap the single text field to be able to view it all.  REALLY need that paragraph field available in AR.

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Related community post:  https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-can-we-add-a-note-or-comment-to-the-Advanced-Roadmap-Plan/qaq-p/1919917

Related enhancement request:  https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JPOSERVER-2820

100,000 votes for this enhancement!  The ability to note brief status comments is ABSOLUTELY needed in order to fully dispense with other project management, roadmap, and status reporting tools and rely solely on Jira AR.

Pain points with current functionality:

1. Our Business and Technology VPs and C-level folks want to see these status summary statements, but because you all don't offer text wrap, I have to export to Excel and reformat every week, which is a waste of time.
2. Conducting status meetings using Jira AR is super painful, as I have to manually copy each (unwrapped) text field value to a Word doc on the screen while others watch during our Teams screen share, so that we can see the entire comment from the project manager, tweak the contents in Word, and then paste it back into Jira AR.  Ugh.  Double, triple, quadruple Ugh.

Ideas for improvement:

1. Create a toggle setting on AR plan where user can turn on/off text wrap for all fields shown in the view.  (I don't think you need to make that a setting "per field".  All field wrapping or no fields wrapping should be sufficient, IMO.)
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2. It would be SUPER awesome for Jira to offer users the ability to add a Comment to the ticket and flag it as a "status update" type comment; and then have the ability to display the latest "status update" type comment per issue in AR (aka where comment is type="status update" AND MAX comment creation date).

Thanks so much for considering!

This function is a standard expectation in project management software.  Adding this to AR would make it's utility waaaaaay better!  I think Advanced Roadmaps is under utilized in Jira and partly because this functionality is missing.

To me, if a team is creating a plan, especially for the first time, where they are adding tasks on the fly before they are saved down to jira, they would want a pop out of the issue description so they can detail out/ expand on why/justification for the task. Saying things like: "don't forget to check this or that..."; "check with Bob"; "Look in Google drive" etc. 

see this similar ask from the Atlassian community: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-can-we-add-a-note-or-comment-to-the-Advanced-Roadmap-Plan/qaq-p/1919917