How to Dynamically Add Sections in a Jira Form Based on User Input?

[Manuel Alvarez]

Hi Atlassian Community,

I'm currently working on a project in Jira where I need to create a dynamic form that can add sections based on a user-selected value. The challenge I'm facing is to dynamically generate identical sections for each entry a user specifies in a previous field.

To illustrate with an example, let's say the form

is for entering passenger information for a flight. If a user indicates there are 3 passengers (using a numeric field), I need the form to automatically generate 3 identical sections, each dedicated to capturing the details for one passenger.

Could anyone guide me on how to achieve this in a Jira form? Are there any specific plugins, scripts, or built-in functionalities that I can leverage to create such dynamic forms?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Manuel Alvarez,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

You cannot add new sections dynamically based on a number field the way you are describing. Those sections would have to already exist in the form for it to work. So lets say that you want to allow 1 - 10 passengers to be added, the you would have to have 10 sections defined in the form with identical fields.  

[Manuel Alvarez]

Hi @Mikael Sandberg , thanks for the answer.

So the best solution would be having a final question after each section that triggers the unlocking of the following one.

Like:
Is there any passenger left?

• Yes
• No

Do you know how this would impact making API requests?
For example the response would have a JSON structure nested by the section name?

something like this? but in a proper JSON structure?

section1:
  field1: value
  field2: value

section2:
  field1:value
  field2:value

Thanks again!

[Mikael Sandberg]

You cannot use the API to create requests that has a form attached to it. Form does have an API, but it does not allow you to create a new form and add responses to it.

Regarding the structure of the form you could add the yes/no question to each section, or you could have a single drop-down for the user to select the number of passengers, and based on that you activate each section, something like this:

The first section would always be visible, and the following sections would conditionally visible based on the number of passengers selected above 1.

[Sharon Comery]

This was helpful for me, thank you :)

I added the sections as per your screen shots and in each section I put incremental tables which showed 1, 2, 3 etc rows depending on the number chosen in the conditional field.

A 3 rowed table shows because 3 was selected in the previous field.