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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition
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Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

by Patrick Li
February 2019
Beginner
420 pages
10h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding custom field contexts

From time to time, you may need your custom fields to have different behaviors, depending on what project the issue is located in. For example, if we have a select list custom field called Department, we may want it to have a different set of options based on which project the issue is being created in, or even a different default value.

To achieve this level of customization, Jira allows you to create multiple custom field contexts for a custom field. As we have seen already, a custom field context is a combination of issue types and projects. Therefore, in our preceding example, we have a context for the Task issue type and the Project Management project with a different set of options.

Jira allows you to configure ...
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