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How time and estimates roll up in Jira Cloud: from subtasks to Stories and Epics
The Epic says 7 hours. The whole tree under it carries 31. A Story in a team-managed space shows an Original estimate of 2h, although its subtasks add up to 8h. A filter for Epics over budget finds nothing, because the totals aren't searchable. All three come from the same behaviour, and the question keeps coming back to…
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How to create a recurring Epic with its Stories and Sub-tasks in Jira Cloud
A maintenance Epic on the first of every month. A release checklist every sprint. A quarterly access review with the same six tasks. The work repeats, the structure repeats, and somebody rebuilds it by hand each time. People have been asking how to automate it for years: in 2023, in a 2025 thread with over 30,000 views,…
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How to make a field read-only in Jira Cloud: 4 native ways and where each one leaks
A value your Automation rule calculates, which people keep overwriting. A Description that has to stay as the customer wrote it, for audit. Two fields only one team may touch once the work item is Closed. All three are the same question, and it has been coming back to the Community since at least 2019. The answers are…
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How to require an attachment on a workflow transition in Jira Cloud (Jira & JSM)
A change can't move to Done until the test evidence and the rollback plan are on it. A bug can't be raised without a screenshot. A request can't be closed until the signed approval is attached. Some version of this has been asked on this Community since 2017 and keeps coming back, usually under the title "attachment…
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How to create a Jira Epic with all its Stories and subtasks in one step
One Epic. Three Stories under it. Six subtasks under those. The same shape every release, in every project that ships — and built by hand it's ten create dialogs, nine parent assignments, and about three sprints before somebody quietly stops doing it properly. The obvious fix is to save that Epic and its children once and…
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How to add a custom time tracking or duration field in Jira Cloud (Jira & JSM)
A QA estimate that doesn't overwrite the developer's estimate. An SLA limit of 4h stored on the request so an automation rule can compare against it. A baseline estimate, frozen at sprint start, sitting next to the one the team keeps revising. Three different needs, one shared requirement: a field that holds an amount of…
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How to make an attachment mandatory in Jira Cloud (Jira & JSM)
Require a photo of the defect before a bug can be raised. Block the Done transition until the signed contract is on the work item. Make a service request impossible to submit without an ID scan. Some version of this question has been asked on this Community every few months since at least 2018 — and the native answer has…
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How to add an attachment custom field in Jira Cloud (Jira & JSM)
"Can I create a custom field of type attachment?" is one of the longest-running questions in the Jira ecosystem. The original feature request was opened in 2004 and closed as Won't Fix (JRACLOUD-4925) — and new Community threads asking the same thing still appear every few months. This article explains why Jira doesn't…
