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Hello Community
I’m Luke Ellery and I work as a content designer on Jira Software.
We’ve noticed a lot of our users change an issue’s status right after they create it. So we’re adding a new field to the Create issue window, letting you set the issue’s status when you create it. For example, select In progress if you’ve already started the work.
We’re rolling this feature out slowly while we gather feedback to help us improve the experience, so you might not see it in your project straight away.
While you’re creating an issue, you’ll see a field labelled Status. Select it to see a list of available statuses to choose from. You’ll only see statuses that:
you have permission to use
don’t have any special triggers or conditions associated with them in your workflow
can be transitioned to from the To do status
You’ll always see the initial status or transition in your workflow. Normally that status would be To do, but if you’ve made a custom initial status or transition in your project, it will always show.
Select the status you’d like your issue to be in when it’s created, then continue creating your issue as normal. When you hit Create, the issue will automatically transition into your chosen status.
If you find this status field is competing with any automation you’ve set up relating to issue creation, you may need to disable the field which will completely remove it from the Create issue screen.
Go to Settings > System.
Select Edit Settings.
Scroll to Options and choose the settings you’d like to turn on or off.
Select Update to save your changes.
If you have any immediate thoughts or questions, you can share it in the comment thread below
Thanks for reading,
Luke
Luke Ellery
Atlassian Team
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