Multiline Text Attribute very limited in length

Submitted by gerhard on 2015-08-19

I have setup a Attribute of type Text. I wanted to collect information that are about 400 characters long. But apperently the maximum length is 255.

Is there a way to change that maximum length?

No, for longer text you should use the description.

Regards,
Michał

Well, know that the description is longer.

The idea is when i create an issue type to enforce the user to provide all the iformation i need.

As such i want to allow the user to request ssh access via ssh key. To enforce the user to provide the key which is available to the user via copy paste, I tried to create an attribute for it. Sadly those ssh public keys are longer then 255 characters.

Attribute for the key ... Field to small.
Attachment as mandatory ... Not supported.

If i do not enforce it i will receive not what I need. Do you have any other idea except living with the additional round trip of the issue to request a missing key?