Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

Setting up a custom field

Since you are implementing a project for HR, and we have created two issue types in the last chapter, New Employee and Termination, for the New Employee issue type, we will add a new custom field called Direct Manager, so when everything is completed, the manager can be notified that his/her new team member is ready to start. Since the manager is already in the organization, we will be using a user picker field, so Jira will be able to automatically look up the user for us.

For our Termination issue type, we will also add a new custom field called Last Day, so we know when it will be the last day for the employee. For this field, we will use a date picker, so we can keep the date format consistent.

To create these ...