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Pair field alternative for Plans

Simona Spaccatrosi

Hi All,

I'm working on a capacity plan in plans and wanted to add the field ''pair'' from epics to the plan view. Unfortunately when I looked for it it said the field is not supported and even checking with the Admin confirmed is not possible to add.

There is any other similar field I can use?

I want to display which members of my team are working on a certain project to make sure we can cover the upcoming scheduled work.

Please help me I've been running in cycles for the past 2 weeks.

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Marc -Devoteam-

Hi @Simona Spaccatrosi

Welcome to the community.

What type of field is "pair"?

Simona Spaccatrosi

Hi Marc,

is basically a field that allows you to ''pair'' multiple team members to a ticket (epic/story etc)

Marc -Devoteam-

Hi @Simona Spaccatrosi

That's not the question, what type of custom field is this, single select, etc..?

Simona Spaccatrosi

It's multiple choice custom field, don't know if there is a limit I usually pick a maximum of 3/4 people. As it picks any user from the company I'd say there is an ID value in the backend.

Mary from Planyway

Hi @Simona Spaccatrosi

You've hit on a known limitation: Jira Plans has specific restrictions on which custom field types it can recognize and display. Unfortunately, many custom field types, especially those not native to Jira's core (like some third-party app fields or very complex custom field configurations), are not supported in the Plan view for aggregation or capacity planning.

If your "pair" field is a custom field that simply isn't recognized by Plans, here are some alternative approaches within Jira that you might consider:

If "pair" essentially means "which team members are assigned to this epic/project," you could create a "Team Members" custom field.
While typically used for functional areas, if your "pairs" align with distinct components or sub-teams, you could leverage the Component field on Epics.
You could use Labels on your Epics (e.g., pair-John, pair-Jane).

If you're continually battling with Jira's native capacity planning limitations and the inflexibility of custom fields in Plans, I highly recommend looking into a dedicated plugin that excels at visual resource and workload management.

You can definitely achieve robust, visual capacity planning, including understanding who is working on what, with the Planyway plugin for Jira.

Planyway integrates directly with your Jira projects and issues, transforming them into an interactive capacity timeline. It allows you to:

Drag and drop Jira issues to plan their duration and assign them to specific team members.
Planyway indicates team member's capacity, whether people are overloaded or not.
You can balance and calculate workload automatically.
Holidays, vacations and days off are taken into account.
Different scenarios for capacity calculation: based on estimation, remaining time, etc.
Time tracking and reports are also supported in the same app.

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Simona Spaccatrosi

I've somehow missed this reply - thank you - let me give it a try

Mary from Planyway

Let me know if you need help

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