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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition
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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition

by Patrick Li
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
390 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Custom fields

While JIRA's built-in fields are quite comprehensive for basic general uses, most organizations soon find they have special requirements that cannot be addressed simply with the default fields available. To help you tailor JIRA to your organization's needs, JIRA lets you create and add your own fields to the system, called custom fields.

Custom field types

Every custom field belongs to a custom type, which dictates its behavior, appearance, and functionality. Therefore, when you add a custom field to JIRA, you really add another instance of a custom field type.

JIRA comes with over 20 custom field types that you can use straight out of the box. Many of the custom field types are identical to the built-in fields, such as date picker, ...

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