The HR project

Now that you have seen how to manage fields in Jira, it is time to expand our HR project. What we will do this time is add a few new custom fields to help capture some additional useful information. We will also create a customized field configuration specially designed for our HR team. Lastly, we will tie everything together by associating our fields, configurations, and projects through field configuration schemes.

Setting up a custom field

Since you are implementing a project for HR, and we have created two issue types in the last chapter, New Employee and Termination, for the New Employee issue type, we will add a new custom field called Direct Manager, so when everything is completed, the manager can be...