Is there a way to prevent an editable field form being empty?

Filipe Paixao De Lima

I'm looking for a native way to prevent field from being empty. We have a Squad custom field and the users, when wanting to change squads, usually remove the current squad to then apply the new one. That can lead to two undesirable scenarios:

1: the field remains empty, by human error;

2: the field history will consider the change to/from empty as two changes, so it get confusing when analysing  the squad changing data. 

So I was looking for a way to prevent the field from being empty because that would never be the case, in this specific project. 

Kris Dewachter

Hi @Filipe Paixao De Lima ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

You can use "field configurations" to to make the field required.

In your Jira project go to "Settings" --> "Issues" --> "Fields"

You can have a different field configuration for each issue type in your project, or you can share field configurations over multiple issue types.

See this page for more information on field configurations : https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/manage-issue-field-configurations/

 

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Kris