For Jira User Stories - pre populate template

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Hi everyone,

For Jira issues I would like to have a pre populated template in order for the User Stories creators to always use the same template:

I.e once a user creates a User Story on the description it should already display:

As a...

I want to...

So that...

Acceptance Criteria...

Tony Rossiter

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To start, it sounds like you're trying to drive user behavior. The easiest and cleanest way to do this will always be by starting with the users and enforcing best practice, especially when it comes to Agile practices like the one you are talking about.  Agile teams should regularly practice the conventions you described while writing user stories and should have a system force them to.

However, if you have to have system fix, I think what you are looking for is a field with a default value.  This will work for a custom field but you can't set it for the Description, which is a system field.  If this is still your need, I would recommend a new multi-line text custom field called User Story (or something similar) and adding the default value you desire there.  I would also recommend breaking out Acceptance Criteria into it's own custom field as this may be an item you want to report on. 

More info on custom fields: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-create-custom-field-on-JIRA-Cloud/qaq-p/744532

More on default values: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/configure-a-custom-field-991923771.html