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Jira 8 Essentials

You're reading from   Jira 8 Essentials Effective issue management and project tracking with the latest Jira features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802818
Length 420 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Patrick Li Patrick Li
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Jira 8 FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Jira 3. Using Jira for Business Projects 4. Using Jira for Agile Projects 5. Section 2: Jira 8 in Action
6. Issue Management 7. Field Management 8. Screen Management 9. Workflow and Business Process 10. Emails and Notifications 11. Section 3: Advanced Jira 8
12. Securing Jira 13. Searching, Reporting, and Analysis 14. Jira Service Desk 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding 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 system fields available. To help you tailor Jira to your organization's requirements, Jira lets you create and add your own fields to the system, called custom fields.

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 custom field types are identical to the built-in fields, such as date picker, which is like the due date field. They provide you with simplicity and flexibility that are not available with their built-in counterparts...

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