I want to add a bespoke list to a User Story

Question

I want to have a bespoke list on a User Story. It's needed to allow the BAs to say that "User Story 1234 has a list of Identifiers"  -  so a User Story is composed of information originally held against those Identifiers (currently in a separate massive spreadsheet).  Not concerned about linking to the spreadsheet, just want to list the identifiers against the US.

E.g.

User Story ABC1234

Text

As a ....

I want to ....

So that ....

Success criteria :

Result 1(per identifier 1)

Result 2 (per identifier 2)

Then there would be the new list field against the US, holding the Identifiers :

ID0001

ID0002

etc

The list would need to be maintainable from within the US.

Thanks for all/any help.

Kate Caldecott_h6gk2b · Answer

Hi  @Neil.Macaskill

I was taking a look at this and just wanted to flag some other thoughts.

I wasn't absolutely clear if you needed to keep the spreadsheet but one thought is that you could use ProForma to display the fields (use some conditional logic to show/ hide only the relevant information eg choice lists ) and then potentially use the data connections feature.

You could:

* convert the list of identifiers into the appropriate JSON structure
* store it in a project entity property
* create a data connection to that entity property
* link a form choice question to that data connection

Heads up I am from ProForma to be transparent.  There is a free version of ProForma Lite if you just wanted to do the list as a choice list and conditional logic on the form instead.(free up to 3 forms but you don't have a data connector with that version).

Kit Friend_pvmg27 · Answer

@Neil.Macaskill  yes you can store more than one label in a labels field. This is also why they're a bit dangerous and can get noisey :D

Note:

- there's the default "labels" field in Jira but also...
- you can create new custom fields of a "labels" type - you might want to use this option to make clear that you're wanting people specifically to enter certain IDs

Neil.Macaskill · Answer

@Kit Friend Thanks for your reply.  Can a Labels field be multi-element ? I need to store a list of Ids against the US.  The list length can be 2 or more.