Issue linking

JIRA allows you to create custom hyper-links for issues. This allows you to provide more information to the issue. For example, for a support-type issue, you can link it to a web page that contains information on how to resolve similar types of problems. Another example will be to link the issue to other related issues.

Enabling issue linking

Issue linking is enabled by default when you first install JIRA. Issue linking is configured globally, so once it is enabled, it will become available for all projects in JIRA.

If issue linking is disabled, you can enable it by the following steps to enable issue linking. Note that you need to be a JIRA administrator:

  1. Log in as a JIRA administrator user.
  2. Browse to the JIRA administration console. ...

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