Field configuration
As you have already seen, fields are used to capture and display data in Jira. Fields can also have behaviors, which are defined by field configuration. For each field in Jira, you can configure the behaviors listed here:
- Field description: This is the description text that appears under the field when an issue is edited. With field configuration, you can have different description text for different projects and issue types.
- Visibility: This determines whether a field should be visible or hidden.
- Required: This specifies whether a field will be optional or required to have a value when an issue is being created/updated. When applied to select, checkbox, or radio button custom fields, this will remove the None option from the list.
- Rendering: This specifies how the content is to be displayed and what the field looks like when you are editing it. For example, a text-based field can have a default text editor, which will be a simple text-based...
