<rss version="2.0" xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Inflectra Customer Forums: Incident Description field is required even when hidden and disabled (Thread)</title><description>I have defined my workflow for incidents to have a defect in status NEW should have DESCRIPTION field disabled and hidden (and it is NOT a required field). However when I go to save a new incident it tells me I have to enter a description to save (even though the description field is not visible).     Is this a bug? </description><language>en-US</language><copyright>(C) Copyright 2006-2026 Inflectra Corporation.</copyright><managingEditor>support@inflectra.com</managingEditor><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Project_Management/</category><category domain="http://www.dmoz.org">/Computers/Software/Quality_Assurance/</category><generator>KronoDesk</generator><a10:contributor><a10:email>support@inflectra.com</a10:email></a10:contributor><a10:id>http://www.inflectra.com/kronodesk/forums/threads</a10:id><ttl>120</ttl><link>/Support/Forum/spiratest/issues-questions/1612.aspx</link><item><guid isPermaLink="false">threadId=1612</guid><author>Carlotta Simonson (csimonson1@gmail.com)</author><category domain="http://www.inflectra.com/kronodesk/thread/tag">workflow</category><category domain="http://www.inflectra.com/kronodesk/thread/tag"> incidents</category><title>Incident Description field is required even when hidden and disabled</title><description>I have defined my workflow for incidents to have a defect in status NEW should have DESCRIPTION field disabled and hidden (and it is NOT a required field). However when I go to save a new incident it tells me I have to enter a description to save (even though the description field is not visible).     Is this a bug? </description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 02:26:15 -0500</pubDate><a10:updated>2017-01-21T17:41:02-05:00</a10:updated><link>/Support/Forum/spiratest/issues-questions/1612.aspx</link></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">messageId=2882</guid><author>David J (adam.sandman+support@inflectra.com)</author><title>&#xD;
Hi Carlotta  No that is working as designed. Unlike other types of artifact, Incidents always need</title><description>&#xD;
Hi Carlotta  No that is working as designed. Unlike other types of artifact, Incidents always need to have a Description.  Regards  Adam &#xD;
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