Pre-set naming system in issues title?

[Deleted user]

Hello Community !

Our team has defined a naming system for all new issues. This concerns a lot of people in our organization and unfortunately, it has been little followed so far.

I'd like to pre-set the title of issues with our naming system, so people know how to fill issues in and don't make mistakes.

ex, propose: "[Project Ref number]-[Work package X]-Issue title" in the title field when a new issue is created.

Is it possible? Can someone help me?

Thanks !

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

If you have scripting or automation tools, you could 

• Create a validator on the create transition to check it's been entered correctly
• Create a function that overwrites the summary, 

Both of these are a bad idea, one makes it hard for people to enter issues, the other destroys data they deliberately put on the issue.

It would be a lot better for all your users to look at why you think you want to do this.  The summary field is not intended for classifying issues, it's intended to capture a human summary of the issue.

You've already got the project named in the issue key, and you should probably be putting the work package into a dedicated field so you can make it easily searchable.  Is the problem your team are trying to solve simply that they don't know how to search for their issues?

[Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_]

Hi @[deleted] ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

Unfortunately you can't do that in JIRA Cloud (there's a workaround for JIRA Server/Data Center - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-set-default-value-for-summary-field-in-jira-800692650.html)

I found a suggestion on Atlassian backlog https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-75592 

Please vote and watch that issue so that you will receive updates about progresses.

Hope this helps,

Fabio