Is it possible to define default value in JIRA forms?

[Anu.Asthana]

Is it possible to define default value in JIRA forms?

[Trudy P Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anu.Asthana 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

If you are talking about a Form used with a Software project, the fields on the Form must be linked to a field in the Work Item. If you want a default value for the field on the Form you would need to define a default value for the underlying field in the work item. If you are working with a Company Managed project the Jira Administrators can set default values for the fields used in those projects. If you are working with a Team Managed project then the users assigned to the Administrator role for the project can set default values for the project fields, if they are not re-using Globally configured fields.

[Olha Yevdokymova_SaaSJet · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anu.Asthana 

If you’re talking about native Jira Forms (the built-in Forms feature in Jira Cloud / JSM), here’s how defaults actually work:

If the form field is a Jira field

If you add an existing Jira field (like Priority, Component, custom field, etc.) to the form:

• The default value is controlled in the Jira field configuration, not inside the form.

• So if the field has a default in Field Configuration (e.g., Priority = Medium), that’s what will show when the form opens.

• The form itself doesn’t override that.

If you’re using Smart Forms for Jira (built by my team), then yes — default values are fully supported.

You can:

• Set a Default Response for forms elements and enter any default response you want

• Use static defaults (e.g., “Medium”, “Internal Request”).

• If you hide the field with the default value it can be mapped to jira field and it is frequetly used when some tracking needed like form submission source

• Use URL parameter pre-filling, like:

  {priority}
  {summary}
  {reporterName}

  Then pass values through the form link:

  &priority=High

• Hide fields while still pre-filling them.

That allows much more flexible default behavior, including contextual values coming from Jira or external systems.