Adding a custom field to your Create Linked Work Item Screen
Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
You have successfully added your custom field on your Create Issue Screen, but this custom field is not displayed when you try to create a linked issue. The steps below will show you how you do it.
Please note that this will not work if attempting to make a linked issue for a different project and the target project has custom fields not available in the current project.
Warning
The steps in this KB use the field configuration settings to mark the field as required. This requires a value for that field for all issues that use that field configuration scheme. To mitigate this, we recommend:
associate just the project you are working with to use this copied field configuration and scheme.
From that point, you can follow the solution using this field configuration scheme so that it only affects the specific project(s).
Solution
The Create linked work item has its own screen, so you don't see the custom field, even though it has been successfully added to the Create Work Item Screen.
The example below shows how to add a custom field called Details on your Create Linked Work Item Screen.
If not done, create your custom field and associate it with your screens. See Create custom field for detailed steps.
Authenticate as your Jira Admin user.
Go to Settings > Issues > Field Configuration.
Select the field configuration for your project.
Locate the Details field and mark it as Required.
The custom field will change to Required.
Open the desired work item and select More > Create linked work item.
The Details custom field is displayed on your Created linked work item Screen.
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