How to add a new section in JIRA?

[Sudha]

I want to create fields for QA separately in JIRA. For that, I want to create a new section. Can anyone explain this?

[Trudy Claspill]

If you want to include fields that record QA related information in your issues, and you want to group those fields together, and if you are working with issues in a Company Managed project, then you could group those fields together using a Tab.

Adding a Tab to the screen is available only in Company Managed projects, not Team Managed projects. 

Adding a Tab is done from the Configure Screen screen, which is accessible only to Jira Administrators.

For more information on adding Tabs to screens refer to this documentation.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-issue-screens/

When you add Tabs to your screen they appear on the left in the area where the Description field displays, above the Linked Issues/Child Issues area.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Hi Sudha,

If you mean you want a new panel containing a subset of field somewhere in the view screen, then the the short answer is "no".  The screen layout is done by the code in Jira and there's no way to inject any code that would re-arrange the screens.

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @[deleted] and welcome to the Community!

That's a very open question. I'm afraid that a new section is a bit vague to determine what you need.

QA is usually part of a bigger process. If that process is part of a larger development effort, that usually means you are expected to review work that is coming from the development team(s).

It is most common to add QA statuses to the workflow of the developers' work items (stories, bugs), such as Ready for QA, QA Review, Ready for Release (or something that matches your process better).

You can work together on the development board with your QA team or create a QA Board for just your team, just listing the issues in the statuses I mentioned above. But do take some time to define your process and what you actually need to make it work (regardless of the tool). Then, read up on how you can configure workflows, screens, notifications, dashboards and boards in Jira to configure the tool to support your process in the best possible way.

Hope this helps!