Is it possible to remove the time component of a Jira Core task's story estimate?

Question

In the 'Story estimate' field in Jira Core Server, is there a way to have the field not require the time piece, and have this field setup as just a number? Would like to have the estimate field like a normal estimate used in Jira Software; we use Fibonacci numbers. Is this possible at all?

Brian Kim_jwz21l · Answer

Hmm how do I change it to a numeric field? My role is an admin but when I go to Settings - Fields - Field Configurations - Default Field Configurations and then try to edit "Story point estimate" the only thing I can edit is its description

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

No, the estimate field is an estimate of an elapsed time.

You can simply swap to using a numeric field, which can then hold any numbers you want.

But that won't be limited to Fibonacci-ish - you'd need to persuade your users to do it properly.  (I say "ish" because most of us break the sequence at 21 and 36 and go with 20 and 40)

But a workaround on that is to create a drop-down/select with the Fibonacci-ish sequence,  then use something like Scriptrunner to create a number based scripted field that reads the select list and outputs the number based on that.