Knowledge base using a custom field

Dylan Chadinha

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could assist me, Is there a way you could make your articles appear without using "Summary", could you use a custom field?

I have hidden the "summary" on our helpdesk and hardcoded it as a specific header. e.g. "Data Call" , "IT Call". 

Thanks

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The short answer is no.  

The summary field in Jira is there for a good reason and the knowledge base is built on the assumption that you are using the summary field for what it is intended for.

I would get rid of your hard-coding of the summary field.  It's a terrible thing to do even before you start looking at where the summary field is used for knowledge bases.  You're destroying or changing what your end users have spent time entering, and expect to be able to find and re-use unchanged.  Don't do that to people, they really don't like it.

Your "headers" sound like they are probably for reporting or classification which is not something you should be doing with the summary field.  It does not allow you to run a lot of the types of reports you want from a classification

What problem are you trying to solve by doing this?