Time Tracking aqnd logging work, black magic?

[Bob]

Hi,

I am fairly new to setting up jira, we have our project and board, are adding our epics/stories/tasks.  All is good.

Our next action is that we want to add and estimated time field and a logged work time field. For the life of me I can not get that to show up. I've looked through many post in the community, but nothing.

Time Tracking is enabled, the rights seem to be ok (the user I'm testing with is an admin)... I am clueless atm.

Isn't there a manual to set this up?  (browsed the docs and community, couldn't find one)

Thank you,

Bob

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Go to the project settings -> screens and add the time tracking field to the screens.

You can see the Estimated time, Remaining Time and Logged time in the Time Tracking panel. It is added by default. It is available after you provide a value for the Original Estimate field or you log work.

[Bob]

Hi Alexey,

Thank you for your answer. Here's what I did.

I went to the "Project settings", but there is not "screens" option there. I did see the "screens" before so went looking for it. Found it in the "Jira settings" under the "Issues" I found a "Screens" option

So "Jira settings | Issues | Screens"

 

For all screens I added the the "time tracking" and "log work" .

From here I can expect the see the work-logging-fields on the items in my project?

Thank you again!

Bob

[Alexey Matveev]

It means that you created a next-gen project. Next-gen projects do not have the time tracking feature. You would need to create a classic project.

[Bob]

That does explain a lot....  then to help my search... do you have some handles on how to "convert"/"move" a next-gen project to a classic project?

Thanx!

[Alexey Matveev]

You should create a new classic project and use bulk move to move issues from the next-gen project to the classic project.

You can find more info about bulk edit here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver073/editing-multiple-issues-at-the-same-time-861257342.html

[Bob]

thanx!  figured it out yesterday as well. The moving process went smooth... enough... only lost links between epics an stories.   Not sure if I missed a "checkbox" or that this is a "designed".

[Alexey Matveev]

You did not miss anything. It works like this.

If my answer helped you, kindly accept my answer.