Pre-filled fields upon "Create issue"

Chris Newton

Hi,

I have not able to find this info anywhere.

Is there a way that we can have the Summary and Description fields pre-populated with a text template when an end-user clicks on the "+ Create Issue" button? We would want the text used to pre-populate in those fields dependent on the Issue Type (e.g. Bug, Story, Epic).

We used something like this in Redmine (https://github.com/otaviofcs/redmine-issue-template) before we switched to Jira. In that case we had to select the template we wanted to use and then insert it in.

I'm fine with the same functionality of that Redmine plugin, but it would be cool if the fields could be prepopulated.

Thanks!

-Rich

Matt Henslee_kdh3jm

I'm using workflow post-functions to sort of do this without any plugins. It may not prepopulate the fields at the create screen, but once you create the issue those fields are populated via that workflow action. I would just omit those fields that need to be prepopulated from the create screen altogether and have the workflow fill it in. Later you can edit those fields through an edit screen or workflow function.