New Feature: Formula Custom Fields in Jira Cloud!

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Hey everyone,

Kendra here, I'm a Product Manager on Jira! I’m excited to share that we are rolling out a new Formula Custom Field in Jira Cloud.

We know many teams need flexible ways to run calculations in Jira, for various use cases whether it be for risk ratings, cost calculations, summing effort, estimating dates, assessing business impact, and more.

Formula Fields will display dynamic, calculated values directly within a Jira Work Item.

How Formula Fields work

• Formula will be a new custom field type in Jira.

• These can be created and edited by:

  • Space admins in team-managed spaces

  • Jira admins in company-managed spaces

• This feature will be available for Software, Business and Service spaces (and is currently being explored for Discovery spaces).

• Once you create a formula field, its output type cannot be changed.

  • For example, you can’t change a formula from a number output to a text output. To do that, you’ll need to create a new formula field.

• We’re launching this feature as an open beta, and moving to GA once formula fields are supported in JQL search in Spring 2026.

Things to know about Formula Fields

• Formula Fields are read-only

  • They calculate values but can’t be edited directly.

• Formula Fields can reference other custom fields associated with the work item and/or integers.

• The scope of a formula will be within a single work item.

  • Formulas cannot be run across work items.

  • For example, you can’t roll up the estimated effort of all tasks to the parent using a formula field.

• We'll be adding functionality shortly that when enabled, Rovo can help you:

  • Generate formulas from a natural language prompt

  • Suggest corrections for syntax errors

Rollout timeline

We’ll roll out formula fields progressively as we add more capabilities. Timelines below are indicative only and subject to change.

Rolling out in December 2025

• Support in team-managed spaces only (for Business, Software, and Service spaces).

• Inputs: number custom fields (including story points) and integers.

• Support for mathematical operators and functions.

• Numeric outputs that can be formatted as numbers, currency, or percentages.

• Outputs visible on work items and in the All work view.

Early Spring 2026 (~March 2026)

• Support in team-managed spaces only (for Business, Software, and Service spaces).

• New inputs: Date/time, Priority, Select (including checkboxes), Labels, Categories, and Short text fields.

• Support for Date/time, text, and logical functions.

• Support for Date/time and text outputs.

• Output visible on the board view (on board cards).

Late Spring (~April 2026)

• Support in company-managed spaces (for Business, Software, and Service spaces).

• All capabilities from deliverables one and two extended to company-managed spaces.
  
  

During the first half of 2026, we will also add:

• Support for using formula fields in JQL search.

• Support in the List view in Plans.

• Duration outputs for formulas (for example, calculating the time between two dates or times).

I hope you’re as excited as I am for this release!

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback on what I've outlined above. I'll continue to post updates on this feature as we roll out.

[Trudy Claspill]

@Kendra Fales 

This is a wonderful addition!

I have a few questions:

1. Can you provide a more detailed timeline of when this open beta will deploy to various systems? Is it going out based on subscription plans?
2. Where can we find documentation for the formula syntax and available functions?
3. In my One Atlassian environment deployed in mid November I see a field type named "Custom Formula" is already available for JPD. What is the impact to that field type with this new "Formula" field being rolled out potentially to JPD spaces?

[Dave Mathijs]

Hi @Kendra Fales Same question as @Trudy Claspill What's the difference between JPD's "Custom Formula" field and the "Formula" field currently being explored for Discovery spaces?