# Watcher - formatting the description field in jira action

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009 "2020-07-06T13:24:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![norgro2601](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/norgro2601/32/33292_2.png) [@norgro2601](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/norgro2601)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009/1 "2020-07-06T13:24:03Z")

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Hi,

I try to format the description field in jira out of a watcher with different styles, bold text and so on.  
I've found no documentation, if this is possible and if it is, what I could use. Does anybody know if it is just plain text or if more is possible ?

Best regards,  
Norbert

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009/2 "2020-07-23T09:32:36Z")

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The fields are forwarded as-is to JIRA, so if JIRA supports this (which I do not know on top of my head), then it should also be supported by alerting.

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**Author:** ![norgro2601](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/norgro2601/32/33292_2.png) [@norgro2601](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/norgro2601)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009/3 "2020-07-23T10:26:27Z")

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Thank you for your answer.

I was just wondering, if the formatting is done in JIRA and I might use html-tags to format the description. For an email body in Watcher I have to decide in Watcher if it is body.text or body.html.

I will give it a try.

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**Author:** ![norgro2601](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/norgro2601/32/33292_2.png) [@norgro2601](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/norgro2601)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009/4 "2020-07-30T09:52:30Z")

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Hi @spinscale ,

just to let you know, I've tried with Jira markup syntax and this works as expected.  
[https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all](https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all)

Best regards,  
Norbert

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-formatting-the-description-field-in-jira-action/240009/5 "2020-08-27T09:52:31Z")

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