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Creating custom fields

Creating custom fields - Jira Tutorial

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Creating custom fields

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One of the drivers to create a new issue type in JIRA is that you have some specific fields to describe that issue type that aren't present for any of the canned issue types you get out-of-the-box with JIRA. From the perspective of our JIRA metadata, to do this, we'll be working with the second branch of concepts from the left this time. We'll create some custom fields, define how they should behave for our new issue type in a field configuration, and then map those behaviors to our new issue type with a field configuration scheme. This work won't result in us seeing all of those fields for an exploratory test yet. That'll have to wait until we build a custom screen. When I first started customizing JIRA for Teams, the purpose and existence of the field configuration concept always used to confuse me. What I instinctively wanted to do was just build my custom fields and then go straight to building a custom screen, including those new fields. And it seemed like you should be able to…

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