Required Field Exception Is Not Displayed When Integrating JIRA with IIS
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Symptoms
When creating or editing an issue, the exception "The Field is Required" is not being displayed.

Cause
When submitting an empty required field, the action will resulted in a 400 Bad Request exception.

Resolution
Open the web.config that's in the folder you setup in IIS for JIRA.
Add the following lines within the file
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<system.webServer> <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" /> </system.webServer>
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