how to add default field

Question

When creating new Tasks/Story/Sub-tasks, we require reporters to assign an estimate to the issue. In the absence of that, we would like to set a default estimate of 2h 1m on these issues to avoid having issues with an empty original estimate.

Can you please help me with this?

Thanks

Sneha

Vishwas · Answer

@Sneha Prakash Somnathe

Even though it might be possible, i would recommend to check Nic Brough's answer.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

There's no way to set a default value for an estimate off the shelf - this is because it's a really very bad idea to default the estimate, people will just accept the default and move on, leaving you in a worse place than if they had set no estimate at all.  At least with an empty estimate it's easy to see that an issue is not ready to be worked on, and you can very easily pull out reports with "and estimate is empty"

If you insist on doing it, you'll need an app that can exercise some control over the UI - the Behaviours module in Scriptrunner is the only one I know of that could do this.

Sneha Prakash Somnathe · Answer

Hi @Vishwas

In the absence of estimate value, we would like to set a default estimate of 2h 1m on issues to avoid having issues with an empty original estimate.