Chapter 2.  Customizing JIRA for Your Projects

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up different issue types for projects
  • Making a field required
  • Making the assignee field required
  • Hiding a field from view
  • Choosing a different field renderer
  • Creating a new field configuration
  • Setting up customized screens for your project
  • Removing a select list's none option
  • Adding help tips to custom fields
  • Using JavaScript with custom fields
  • Creating your own custom field types
  • Customizing project agile boards

Introduction

An information system such as Atlassian JIRA is only as useful as the data that goes into it, so it is no surprise that JIRA is very flexible when it comes to letting you customize the fields and screens. JIRA comes with a suite ...

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