JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Setting up customized screens for your project

JIRA comes with three screens by default: the Default Screen, the Resolve Issue Screen, and the Workflow Screen.

In this recipe, we will look at how to create a new screen from scratch, and then make it appear when we are creating a new issue of type Task.

How to do it...

The screen is one of the most complicated configurations in JIRA. To create a new screen and apply it often requires you to configure multiple schemes. So we will break these steps into three logical groups.

Firstly, we need to create our new screen:

1. Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
2. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Screens.
3. Click on the Add Screen button, and name the new screen Task Create Screen click on Add.
4. Select and add ...