Adding help tips to custom fields

Users who are new to Jira often find it confusing when it comes to filling in fields, especially custom fields. Therefore, it is for you as the administrator to provide useful tips and descriptions to explain what some of the fields are for.

In this recipe, we will be adding a help icon to a customer field that we have called Team. You can apply this recipe to any custom fields you have in your Jira.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to add help tips to a custom field:

1. Log into Jira with a user that has a Jira administrator's permission.
2. Navigate to Administration > Issues > Custom Fields.
3. Click on the Edit link for the custom field.
4. Enter the following HTML snippet...