When you edit an issue and save your changes with a Save Draft button, JIRA Client saves the modifications in the local database. Some feature such as edit with Drag-and-Drop does not open any dialog, these features always save your changes locally.
You can see your modifications in an issue table and search them with JIRA Client queries, but these changes are not uploaded to your JIRA server and are not visible to other users.
JIRA Client marks locally changed issues with this icon:
JIRA Client shows the total number of locally changed issues in the right-bottom corner of the main window. You may open an issue table with all locally changed issues by clicking on this number.
Also in multi-connection configuration you can find all locally changed issues for a particular connection with an Outbox folder.
After you save a draft issue it remains locally changed until you explicitly upload it to your JIRA server. To do so you may:
Also, if you edit a locally changed issue and press the Upload button on the editor, JIRA Client uploads all changes of the issue including any change you have done earlier.
Before you upload your local changes to your JIRA server you may discard them. By doing this you roll back any modification you have made to the issue. All fields of the issue will have values equal to values from your JIRA server.
You can discard your local changes with the following features:
JIRA Client shows it has 2 issues with local changes.
On this screen shot you may:
Issues TP-2 and TP-3 has local changes