Work on and progress your issues

Track the time spent working on issues for better project schedule planning.

Estimate an issue in your backlog to predict how long it will take to deliver certain portions of the backlog.

Pin your most important, useful, and frequently used fields to the top of an issue.

See the reference for markdown and shortcuts in the new Jira Cloud issue view.

Flag an issue and it will display in yellow in various places on your scrum and kanban boards and backlogs.

Rank an issue according to its relative importance or urgency.

Add due dates to help your team prioritize what work gets done first.

Transition an issue to columns on a board that have workflow statuses already mapped to them.

Create links between issues to connect teams, dependencies, and related work directly on the board.

Duplicate an issue so you don't have to copy anything over manually.

Print issue cards from scrum or kanban projects so your team can use them on a physical board.

Stay up to date on an issue with notifications when something happens, and share with your team.

Add context to an issue that plain text can't provide.

Reduce clutter on an issue by deleting attachments you don't need anymore.

Let your team’s personality shine.

Review all attachments in the attachments section of an issue from your own device.

Choose the most suitable view for your attachments and get the information you need.

Work with an attachment on your own device, the way you want.

Try this if you want to do something on the issue view but can’t find it, or if you prefer working with issues with a keyboard.

Reduce clutter by deleting attachments you don't need anymore.

If you don't know where a field is, the issue view has a quick way for you to find it.

Learn how your issue fields display dates and times depending on what language you choose.

Avoid duplicate attachments by reusing them.

If you don't know who to assign an issue to, use the Automatic option for the Assignee field.

Archive issues from your project instead of deleting them.

Help people recognize when they’re viewing or working on sensitive information.

Learn about the Comment on issue action in Atlassian Automation

You can select multiple issues at once from the backlog and make simple bulk edits to those issues.

Enable the Goals field in the issue view to start linking your team's work to higher-level business objectives.

Learn how to share your work in Jira as a Smart Link.

Learn about comments, history, work log, and how they fit into the activity section of an issue.