Is it possible to enable reciprocal links by default?

[Patrick S]

When linking issues across JIRA (or Confluence) instances, is it possible to have reciprocal linking checked by default?

[Moga · Accepted solution]

Hi Patrick,

Out of box JIRA, does not have an option for you to enable this by default. The feature request is JRASERVER-65283. Please do vote on the feature request.

This option might work, you can inject Javascript into JIRA's announcement banner and input the attribute from

<input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" id="create-reciprocal" name="createReciprocal" value="true">

to

<input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" id="create-reciprocal" name="createReciprocal" value="true" checked="">

You can take a look at How to hide the create issue link from issues dropdown and How to Change Text Box Length on a Screen UI in JIRA to learn on how to inject script.

I hope that this helps. Cheers.