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Mastering JIRA 7

You're reading from   Mastering JIRA 7 Become an expert at using JIRA 7 through this one-stop guide!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466860
Length 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ravi Sagar Ravi Sagar
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning Your JIRA Installation 2. Searching in JIRA FREE CHAPTER 3. Reporting – Using Charts to Visualize the Data 4. Customizing JIRA for Test Management 5. Understanding Zephyr and its Features 6. Sample Implementation of Use Cases 7. User Management, Groups, and Project Roles 8. Configuring JIRA User Directories to Connect with LDAP, Crowd, and JIRA User Server 9. JIRA Add-On Development and Leveraging the REST API 10. Importing and Exporting Data in JIRA and Migrating Configuration 11. Working with Agile Boards in JIRA Software 12. JIRA Administration with ScriptRunner and the CLI Add-on 13. Database Access 14. Customizing Look, Feel, and Behavior 15. Implementing JIRA Service Desk 16. Integrating JIRA with Common Atlassian Applications and Other Tools 17. JIRA Best Practices 18. Troubleshooting JIRA

Learning how to make certain fields mandatory only for a test campaign


We have added the custom field and users will also be prompted to enter the field, but there is one problem: it's quite possible that users will not provide any value in this field and skip it. In JIRA, it's possible to make a certain field mandatory and this is achieved by modifying the field configuration of the project:

  1. Go to Administration | Field configurations (under FIELDS) and create a copy of Default Field Configuration and name it Test Management Field Configuration:

  2. After the field configuration is copied, click on the Configure link (under Operations) as shown in the preceding screenshot.

  3. As you can see on the screen, for every field, it's possible to make it Required, that is, mandatory. Click on the Required link and the field configuration will be modified in an instant. The last step is to create a field configuration scheme where we will associate this new field configuration to the Test Campaign issue...

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