Is it possible to define default value in JIRA forms?

Question

Trudy Claspill · Accepted Answer

Hello @Anu.Asthana

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

If you are talking about a Form used with a Software project, the fields on the Form must be linked to a field in the Work Item. If you want a default value for the field on the Form you would need to define a default value for the underlying field in the work item. If you are working with a Company Managed project the Jira Administrators can set default values for the fields used in those projects. If you are working with a Team Managed project then the users assigned to the Administrator role for the project can set default values for the project fields, if they are not re-using Globally configured fields.

Olha Yevdokymova · Accepted Answer

Hi @Anu.Asthana

If you’re talking about native Jira Forms (the built-in Forms feature in Jira Cloud / JSM), here’s how defaults actually work:

If the form field is a Jira field

If you add an existing Jira field (like Priority, Component, custom field, etc.) to the form:

The default value is controlled in the Jira field configuration, not inside the form.

So if the field has a default in Field Configuration (e.g., Priority = Medium), that’s what will show when the form opens.

The form itself doesn’t override that.

If you’re using Smart Forms for Jira (built by my team), then yes — default values are fully supported.

You can:

Set a Default Response for forms elements and enter any default response you want

Use static defaults (e.g., “Medium”, “Internal Request”).

If you hide the field with the default value it can be mapped to jira field and it is frequetly used when some tracking needed like form submission source

Use URL parameter pre-filling, like:

{priority}
{summary}
{reporterName}

Then pass values through the form link:

&priority=High

Hide fields while still pre-filling them.

That allows much more flexible default behavior, including contextual values coming from Jira or external systems.