Multi-checkbox native or plugin options

[Jason Strobush]

Hello, and good afternoon!

Been searching for a bit, and I've seen references to multicheckbox custom fields, but these posts are aged and presumably for JIRA Server, not JIRA Cloud...

So with that in mind, does anyone have any suggestions for a plugin, or some way to natively do the following?

What I'm hoping for is a to-do list style checkbox, that will let me build a table of Acceptance Criteria -- and I know there are a number of plugins for that.  However, I want the horizontal to have multiple checkboxes, for Dev, QA, etc to sign off on each piece of criteria.  Essentially, recreating a spreadsheet style view.

Sub-tasks would be the accepted default answer, but 5 AC, Dev and QA, that's 10 subtasks, and thats just unwieldy.

Any insights anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

The posts you've found are probably still generally accurate and do apply to Cloud.

Jira has a basic checkbox implementation available in both team and company managed projects.  This can be used as a simple checklist if you want.

But it does look like a checkbox list, it's a simple flat list with no formatting/layout options, and there's nothing to stop any individual clicking all the wrong boxes.

Sub-tasks would allow you to control things more, and you could get a grid-like view of them.

The apps you've found that do checklists properly are probably better but still may not do everything you need.

You say "a spreadsheet-style view" - for that, you probably want an app more aimed at tables in Jira.  I've only ever used the "Table Grid" app for that, but there may be a couple of others that could work.

[Jason Strobush]

We attempted to use built in features, but the only checkbox we found was a custom field, that was a dropdown style multiselect -- and it required the custom field to be configured upfront with its possible options, so it didn't feel like the correct direction, as every card would have a different list of acceptance criteria.   Is there a piece we're missing?  A list isn't *ideal*, but I could probably work with it.  

I acknowledge that this is susceptible to human error, and that's acceptable.

A grid-like view of subtasks might be interesting, if not a little overkill.  Other than a Issue Query view, I've never seen anything like this, however.

Table Grid could work, especially if a checkbox could be added to the rows (the marketing shows a checkbox, but I can't tell if thats just a selector to control the row, or actually part of the data.)

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There is a checkbox field as well as the drop-down multiselect, but they work the same way - your admins define the options on the list.

You are definitely going to need one of the checklist apps in the marketplace, but I do think you can do it well enough with the table grid!

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Jason Strobush

We used smart checklists which may meet your criteria.

Link: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216451/smart-checklist-for-jira-pro?tab=overview&hosting=cloud

Regards 

[Jason Strobush]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I did see Smart Checklists, but they appear to only allow one "check" per line item.  Not quite what I'm hoping for, if thats true.

Failing that, can a given list be copied multiple times easily on a single issue?

Thanks