How can I determine the template type for a given Software Project?

[Marc Juliano]

I'm fairly new to Jira. We have the Service Desk and Software products.

Someone in my team created a Jira Software project, which appears to be set for Scrum. But it looks very similar (Board view, etc) to some other software projects that I have already created. How can I tell which template each of these projects is using? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You don't.  Once created, a project can be configured to be totally different to the template it was created with.  The template only matters during the creation process, and is not needed after that.

[Marc Juliano]

Thanks. The reason I ask is, on some of the earlier projects I created (Basic or Basic Agility, etc.) I'm able to add a custom field to them. For example, "Project Code". But when I go to add the same field to this Scrum project, it says "Unable to add field to issue". So something seems to apparently be different between the two projects. I didn't do any permission, screen or screen scheme changes to any of the other projects in order to get that custom field to display on the issues.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's not the project, it's your permissions within the project.  Check if you're a project admin in the Scrum project.