How to Add Acceptance Criteria to User Story

Question

Is my understanding I have to edit Work Item types, but I never done it before- can someone give me the steps?  thanks

Jack Hunter _HeroCoders_ · Answer

Hi @[deleted],

There are no built-in acceptance criteria handling in Jira so you need to use a substitute.

The few possible ways are:

* add acceptance criteria in the Description field and use available formatting
* add a multiline custom field named Acceptance Criteria
* use a third-party app.

When comes to third-party apps, there are many of them available in Atlassian Marketplace.

I can propose Issue Checklist Pro or Issue Checklist Free provided by my team that present acceptance criteria or definition of done in the form of Checklist. They both come with a set of useful features like:

* blocking issue resolving if acceptance criteria (checklist) is not completed
* full-screen editor
* default acceptance criteria for a project or issue type
* and many more.

Cheers,
Jack

Paweł Albecki · Answer

Hi Jose,

Not sure what you mean by Work Item types. You can add Acceptance Criteria using text formatting directly in User Story description or install some add-on like Multiple Checklists for Jira which will help you manage Acceptance Criteria.

Best,

Paweł