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+1 for requesting this feature; description should be a field you can query on and include in the issues list.

+1

It's quite annoying if I have a meeting and want to discuss some certain issues. I have to print out each separately, by default with the whole comment history. Occasionally, I just would like to have an overview about some issues that I can print out with some clicks.

+1

We would like to estimate/choose Redmine issues for our sprint planning in a group of people. A preview of the description would be great for that.

Such functionality is already provided by the Show Issue Descriptions plugin.

Mischa The Evil: Why don't you add this to Redmine? I think it should be a core feature. I'm always a bit afraid about plugins, since nobody knows if they will be maintained and updated when a new Redmine version is released.

Robert Schneider wrote:

Mischa The Evil: Why don't you add this to Redmine? I think it should be a core feature. I'm always a bit afraid about plugins, since nobody knows if they will be maintained and updated when a new Redmine version is released.

I installed the plugin and it seems as if it does not work with 1.1.1 which just underlines Robert's comment.

On a bit of a different note:¶

What about just giving a popup¹ of the description when mousing over an issue listed in an issue query. It would not be worth much for printing purposes, but would be great when just browsing through issues.

¹ In the same way as mousing over an update's time-stamp eg. "Updated by Robert Schneider 14 days ago" link that gives an exact date-time down to the second when keeping the mouse cursor stationary over the link "14 days" link.