Do chain comments have draft status?

[Christos Basdekis]

Hello,

While the feature to reply to a comment and link it as chain looks nice and useful, recently I have lost such comments even when navigate within the page and edited something in the description. It looks like while adding a comment as new there is draft status, the chained one missing that. Is this the case or some account setting is missing? As mentioned I have lost quite a a few comments now and is really frustrating. 
If indeed there are no drafts, there is one more time Jira makes things worst when trying to do something good.!!

I rather have the safety of the drafts than using the chained replies. 

[Staffan Redelius · Accepted solution]

Hi @Christos Basdekis 

I just tested to add a reply to a comment without saving and navigated away (within the work item) I get a warning above the comment section and when clicking on it i can see the comment I was starting tor write.

Is this what you were looking for?

Best regards,
/Staffan

[Christos Basdekis]

Hello Staffan,

I was referring replying on an existing comment, that will chain it to it instead of adding a new comment at the top of the comments section.
Apologies if it was not clear in my initial question

Regards
Christos

[Staffan Redelius]

No problem @Christos Basdekis your question was clear and I thougt i tested replying to a comment. Now i realize that it was a in inital comment. 

You were right twice: No it doesn't save drafts of replies, and Yes it's bad...

[Christos Basdekis]

Thanks for confirming @Staffan Redelius .

I really thought I was missing some setting within my account or doing something wrong. It has been really frustrating losing comments like this. Before even having the drafts in the main comments, I used to write any comments first in notepad and copy/paste to jira. I guess back to the basics again :)

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Christos Basdekis 

The reply to comments feature does not have drafts, and here is a suggestion to add that capability.  You may watch / vote for it to see any progress:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-94124

Kind regards,
Bill

[Christos Basdekis]

Hello @Bill Sheboy 

I have been searching for a while whether this has been reported already but to be honest I rarely get any meaningful results with Jira search. Not in this space but within my organisation projects, even if in the search box I put down  3/4 of the subject a ticket has!

Thank you for the link!
To be honest I would be surprised if this will be implemented this year.

[Bill Sheboy]

Agreed, and...

There are several challenges noted in the original announcement thread for this feature.  Specifically, there are now inconsistencies in how the public REST API endpoints for comments might handle reply-to-comments.  Thus, I would not expect "drafts" to be added anytime soon.