Get the project name or ticketid to default in the required summary field

[Josh Didier]

I'm new to JIRA, so my apologies is this is trivial.

I'm creating some custom screens and would like to have the project name (in our case, ENG for engineering, MKRT for marketing, etc...) OR have the project ticket ID populate the summary field.

For example, the summary would default to something like this: "ENG - <user inputted text>" or "ENG-0001 - <user inputted text>" based on the project name.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You can't do this with native Jira, and I don't think there's a way to do it on Cloud (server would allow you to inject code to do part of it).

You could not actually do the issue key part - the issue key for a new issue is only decided as the issue is created - after the human clicks "create" after filling in the fields asked for.

I would question the use of a project prefix in the summary as well - you already have the project key as part of the issue id, you don't need it repeated in a summary.

[Jack Brickey]

I think you could add the ENG prefix using automation. Every time an issue is created it would change the summary. However....

it would not be dynamic, you would need to hard-code this for each project. 

and as Nic inquires, why would you want to do this.