Is there any way to create a table type field?

[Chen Qiu]

Is there any way to create a table type field? Or is there a way to associate a field with multiple fields or a parent field with multiple child fields
Is there such a field?

[Darryl Lee · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chen Qiu - unfortunately Jira does not have a Table Type field. It's a very old suggestion that was denied: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-6696

Probably part of why Atlassian didn't do it is because several third-party vendors made plugins to fill the need.

Table Apps

On Data Center (on-prem) there is:

• Table Custom Fields for Jira 

And on both DC and Cloud we have:

• Table Grid Next Generation 
• STAGIL Tables and ToDo Checklists 

And on Cloud we have:

• Quick Tables - Adding Tables to Jira Issues 
• Table Custom Field with Markdown for Jira Cloud 

(I have a little bit of experience with Table Grid Next Generation. It worked ok.)

DIY with a Paragraph Field

If you create a Paragraph/multiline text field and configure the renderer for the field to support Wiki Markup, you could have what looks like a table in your issues, by using code like:

||Heading 1||Heading 2||
|Col A1|Col A2|

However it's not editable in table-view. People will need to understand WIki Markup.

Good HOWTO here that also discusses the limitations:

• Custom Field with table -how to configure? 

[Chen Qiu]

Thanks for your help!