What will happen if Time Tracking field set as required

[Qais Sami]

Hi guys,

we have already an existing project with many issues distributed through all columns but the Time Tracking field was set as an optional since project creation. My question what would be the consequence if I make the Time Tracking as a required field? will it affect the issues in "In Progress" and "Testing" and other columns?

thank you

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

it will only affect new issues but the precise answer depends on how you make it required and you should think about that a bit. IMO it is generally not a good idea to make that field required at the Create transition. More appropriately IMO is to make it required when the issue has been 'approved' to proceed. For example, lets say you have a workflow that looks like this: To Do --> Selected for Dev --> In Progress --> Testing --> Done

I would suggest either on the transition to Selected for Dev or maybe even In Progress. For sure if you us Scrum then you want the estimate in place before starting the sprint which is built in such that you are warned if any issues in the sprint do not have an original estimate.

[Qais Sami]

thanks alot Jack, it's clear now.