Custom field (on issue screen) - visibility in Sprint Reports

Amulya Sankara

I would like to add a custom field to select the Product on the Create Issue screen. 

I would like to have one single Company Managed Project and then use this custom field to distinguish between the products my teams will be working on. The Product field will be used to customize swimlanes in the Project board.

Note: I will also have individual team boards under this main project. So the team can create any issue and then assign the Product accordingly.

I would also like the Product field to be part of the Reports (Ex: Sprint Burn down charts, etc.) for some analysis. I want to know if it is possible for the custom field to be used in the Sprint Analysis Reports.

Do I have to customize anything here, or is it automatically used by Jira?

Walter Buggenhout

Hi @Amulya Sankara,

You will need to configure the Product custom field and add it to the create issue screen(s) of the issue type(s) you want to use it on.

Customising the swimlanes on your board might be a bit challenging, depending on the number of products you have. You will not be able to just select your custom field there as the basis for swimlanes dynamically, but rather define swimlanes based on queries and then create a separate query for each product you want to display in a separate swimlane. If you have 5 to 10 products, that is manageable - if you have dozens or more, that may become difficult to maintain.

Additionally, most built-in reports in Jira are not customisable. You cannot add your custom field to the sprint reports. You can obviously e.g. export the data from your reports (after you view them in the issue navigator) with the additional field an build your own reports there, or use additional reporting solutions to build more custom reports of your own.

Hope this helps!