Setting up customized screens for your project

Jira comes with three screens by default—the Default screen, the Resolve Issue screen, and the Workflow screen.

In this recipe, we will look at how to create a new screen from scratch, and then make it appear when we are creating a new Task issue.

How to do it...

The screen is one of the most complicated configurations in Jira. To create a new screen and apply it often requires you to configure multiple schemes. So, we will break these steps into three logical groups.

Firstly, we need to create our new screen:

1. Log into Jira with a user that has a Jira administrator's permission.
2. Navigate to Administration > Issues > Screens.
3. Click on the Add Screen button and...