Working with screen schemes

You have seen how we can create and manage screens and how to configure what fields to add to the screens. The next piece of the puzzle is letting JIRA know how to choose the screen that has to be displayed for each issue operation.

Screens are displayed during issue operations, and a screen scheme defines the mapping between screens and the operations. With a screen scheme, you can control the screen for displaying each of the issue operations, as follows:

• Create Issue: This screen is shown when you create a new issue

• Edit Issue: This screen is shown when you edit an existing issue

• View Issue: This screen is shown when you view an issue

Just like screens, whenever you create a new project in JIRA, a new screen scheme is created specifically for you project, and screens are automatically assigned to these issue operations.

The defaults created are usually good enough to get started with; however, there will be times when you would wish that certain fields should...