Setting up different issue types for projects

JIRA comes with a number of issue types out of the box, that are designed for software project management. However, over time, you might find that these issue types do not apply to all of your projects, and you have added your own. In this recipe, we will look at how to manage the issue types so that each project can have its own set of issue types.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to set up a project-specific issue type list:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Issue Type Schemes.
  2. Click on the Add Issue Type Scheme button.
  3. Enter the name for the new issue type scheme.
  4. Add issue types to the scheme by dragging them from right to left.
  5. Select the default issue type.
  6. Click on the Save button ...

Get JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.