Add an attachment to a work item
Attachments give context to a work item that text can’t provide.
When a work item has over 150 attachments, attachments will be displayed as a list. Learn more about viewing attachments in list view.
To add an attachment to a work item:
Open a work item.
Drag and drop your file onto the work item.
Alternatively, you can:
Open a work item.
Scroll down to the Attachments section and select +.
Or, select the Add quick-add button under the summary for the work item and then Attachment.Select Upload a file or drag and drop your files into the media picker.
Limits on how many attachments you can add to a work item
You can add up to 2000 attachments to a work item.
Once a work item has over 150 attachments, they’ll display as a list.
Some considerations for attached files:
Check the list of supported file formats.
File names can't contain any of these characters:
'\', '/','\"', '%', ':', '$', '?', '*'.By default, the maximum size of any one file is 10MB, but your Jira admin can change this limit.
The Free plans for Jira and Jira Service Management have a file storage limit of 2 GB per product. The Standard plan allows up to 250 GB per product, and file storage is unlimited on Premium plans. Learn more
Supported file types
Jira supports these file types:
File type | Extension | Media Type |
3GPP | .3gpp | video |
AAC | .aac | audio |
AC3 | .ac3 | audio |
Adobe Illustrator | .ai | doc |
AIFF | .aif, .aiff | audio |
Monkey Audio | .ape | audio |
ASF | .asf | video |
AU | .au | audio |
AVI | .avi | video |
Microsoft Windows Bitmap | .bmp | image |
CSV | .csv | doc |
Dicom | .dcm | image |
Diff | .diff | doc |
Microsoft Word | .docx, .doc, .dot, .docm, .dotx, .dotm | doc |
DV | .dv | video |
FLAC | .flac | audio |
FLV | .flv | video |
Graphics Interchange Format | .gif | image |
High Efficiency Image File Format | .heif, .heic | image |
JPEG | .jpg, .jpeg | image |
M2TS | .m2ts | video |
M4A | .m4a | audio |
M4V | .m4v | video |
MIDI Files | .mid, midi | audio |
Matroska (Audio) | .mka | audio |
Matroska (Video) | .mkv | video |
MOD Files | .mod | audio |
QuickTime/QT | .mov, .qt | video |
MPEG Audio Layer II/III | .mp3" | audio |
MP4 | .mp4 | video |
MPEG | .mpg, .mpeg, .ts | video |
OpenDocument Drawing | .odg, .otg | doc |
OpenDocument Presentation | .odp, .otp | doc |
OpenDocument Spreadsheet | .ods, .ots | doc |
OpenDocument Text | .odt, .ott, .odm | doc |
Microsoft Office |
| doc |
OGG (Audio) | .ogg, .spx | audio |
OGG (Video) | .ogg | video |
OpenOffice 1.0 Document | .sxw, .stw, .sxc, .stc, .sxi, .sti, .sxd, .std | doc |
Adobe PDF | doc | |
Perl | Perl | doc |
Portable Network Graphics | .png | image |
Microsoft PowerPoint | .ppt, .pptx, .pot, .pps, .pptm, .potx, .potm, .ppsx, .ppsm | doc |
PostScript | .eps, .ps | doc |
Photoshop | .psd | image |
Python |
| doc |
Ruby | .rb | doc |
RealAudio | .rm | audio |
RTF | .rtf | doc |
Tagged Image File Format | .tif, .tiff | image |
Text | .txt | doc |
WAV | .wav | audio |
WebM |
| video |
WMA | .wma | audio |
WMV | .wmv | video |
WordPerfect | .wpd | doc |
Microsoft Excel | .xls", .xlt, .xla, .xlsx, .xlsb, .xlsm, .xltx, .xlam, .xltm | doc |
Zip | .zip | archive |
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