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No Estimation Field on New Scrum Boards

PeteToscano

We've been using Greenhopper for a very long time. Our current Jira instance has many GH Classic Boards from before they were even considered classic. We're now trying to test rapid boards for moving from Classic, but we've found that there is no way to add estimates to issues, no matter how the project is created. Even if we start from scratch by creating a board and project together under the Scrum tab, there is no estimation field for story points, only time. We did a quick parallel install of Jira 5.2 and GH 6.1 and things came up just as expected. Any idea how we can get projects working with GH without doing a separate install of Jira?

FWIW, we're currently running GH 6.1.2 on Jira 5.0.6.

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PeteToscano

I went in an added a new Story Points custom field and tied it to a new Story issue type, added that to a new Agile Issue Type Scheme, and tied that ITS to the project in which I was testing the Scrum board. I can now add story point estimates to the project.

Maybe I could rename the User Story issue type to Story for the same result, since the User Story issue already has a Story Points custom field.

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Anson Hoyt

The RapidBoard "Plan" view allows you to enter an estimate on each issue. This populates the "Story Points" field and is displayed on each issue on the "Plan" view.

Once you begin a Sprint, you can update the estimate by simply editing the issue and changing the "Story Points".

Watch Atlassian's Greenhopper 6.1 video for a nice demonstration of estimating in points: http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/overview (0:56 shows estimating)

PeteToscano

Thanks for taking time to help here, Anson. When we go to the Plan view, there's still no place to put the story points in. When comparing the production Jira system (where I think the problem lies) and the parallel test install of Jira/GH, the story point field doesn't show up anywhere in the production Jira system, yet we do see it in the parallel install.

PeteToscano

As an extra datapoint, I noticed that we have two "Story Points" custom fields defined. One is assigned to all (Global) issue types and it used in many, but not all projects. The other is assigned to the "Epic" and "User Story" issue types and is used in one, defunct project. Might this be the problem or at least a contributing factor?

PeteToscano

Maybe I could rename the User Story issue type to Story for the same result, since the User Story issue already has a Story Points custom field.

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