How to create a custom field which will be timestamped when moves to In Progress

[Magdalena Widera]

Hi!

I need to create a custom field to Jira tickets that will be timestamped when it moves from To Do to In Progress column. Hopefully it could be done with an automated workflow. This should help calculating "Lead time for change". Any ideas how to go about doing that? Thank you!! 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

No, there's nothing in Jira to store the arbitrary data you want to attach to the options.

You'll need to do some coding - either hacking the existing code to add the functions to store and use this property data or take a look at using "active objects" in a plugin (a plugin is neater than mucking around with core code). The active objects approach is quite close to what I think you're thinking of when you say "mapping table"

[eric anier]

thanks a lot..