Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

Setting up screens

In Chapter 5, Field Management, you created a few custom fields specifically designed for our HR team. The problem we had is that all of the new fields show up for both the New Employee and Termination issue types, regardless of whether they are applicable, and this is because both issue types use the same set of screens.

To address this, we will create two new sets of screens, one for New Employee and one for Termination. The default one can be left for other issue types we have in the project, such as Task.

The easiest way to do this will be to clone the existing screens, so we do not have to manually add all of the fields, and avoid forgetting to add a field by accident. To create screens for each issue type, perform ...