Set up Jira Cloud
Learn how to set up Jira Cloud and integrate it with other products and applications.
Collect richer information with your form by customizing how fields will appear in the form one shared. How to add fields to your form.
You can rename each of the field names to suit your form’s purpose.
To rename a form field from the form builder:
Drag and drop the field you’d like to include and edit in your form.
Hover over the field you want to rename.
Select the current field name.
Enter what you’d like to name that field.
Press enter or select the confirmation icon .
Your new form field name will be what is visible on the form when shared.
The original field name will remain visible only to you when editing the form, and will remain on the issue after the form information is submitted.
The field name will revert to its original if dragged back to the sidebar or used in another form.
You can add and edit a description for form fields to add more instructional details to each form field.
To add a form field description:
Hover over Add a description in the field you want to add.
Select Add a description and enter what you’d like.
Press enter or select the confirmation icon .
Your new form field description will be what is visible on the form when shared. This will not change the field description from project settings.
To make fields required or optional for the form submitter to enter:
Select the field you’d like to update. Options to edit the field will appear.
Select the toggle to switch between required or optional. Next to the field name, a red asterisk will appear if required, and disappear if optional.
You can also make fields required from issue type > project settings. If a field is required for the issue type, it must be added to a form. If a field is optional for the issue type, you can make it required from the form builder.
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