Can we modify the JIRA screens (Jira version 7.10.2)

[chaithu kumar]

Is there a provision in JIRA to modify the screens user interface.

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

What do you mean by modifying a screen?

[chaithu kumar]

Hey,

I mean changing the user interface i.e., layout of the screen.

[Alexey Matveev]

Your question is too abstract. I can answer this way, there are not changes in handling Jira screen UI from 7.0

[chaithu kumar]

Thanks for the response.

My query is that can we change the look and feel of the screen i.e., when we create a screen we configure only the system fields and custom fields. what i was looking for is that, can we change the UI so that i can customize it according to my requirement(i.e., i can control the fields(both custom and the system fields) which should appear on the screen, and also their placement on the screen).

Hope i am clear enough.

[Alexey Matveev]

You can not control the placement of some system fields like summary, description, resolution, status and so on.

You can control the order of custom fields and add tabs to screens. 

Basically, it is the same in all 7x versions.

[chaithu kumar]

Can we add another skin(other interface) on top of the issue layout ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, Alexey would have mentioned that if you could.

There are a couple of Apps that claim to "skin" Jira, but they don't really allow you to rearrange things, they're mostly about the look and feel (colour, font, etc)

[chaithu kumar]

Nic & Alexey,

Thanks for your response. 

You mentioned before that we cannot control the placement of the some system field, does this mean this constraint only applies for few system fields and others can be controlled in terms of their placement?

And also can we control their behavior i.e., whether to show the filed or not?

[Alexey Matveev]

You can add a tab to a screen and control the order of fields, but you can not make a field appear, for example, under the attachment web panel.

If you want to control the visibility of a field dynamically (let's say to show or hide, if another field is filled with a certain text), then you would need a plugin.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The issue view is broken up into a set of panels.  You cannot re-arrange these panels, or choose what appears in them.

The way to think of what it does is:

Take the list of fields for the "view" screen you have defined and for each one, choose a place for it defined by type

• Date and time fields are put in the dates panel
• User and group related fields go into the users panel
• Estimate and worklog things move to the estimate panel
• Description, links, sub-tasks and a couple of others get their own panel
• System fields go into the "detail" panel

If a field is not one of the above, it goes in the custom field panel, in the order you've got in the view screen

[chaithu kumar]

Thank you very much for the detailed answer.

When you say panel , are you referring to "tab" or is it something different ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, I am talking about the panels that the screens are divided into.

[chaithu kumar]

Got it, thank you!

One more query, is there a way to create a set of text field (basically we need two fields to be grouped together and be able to create multiple sets of this) based on the input from the previous filed.

[Alexey Matveev]

You would need a plugin for it. For example, this one:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1110050/table-grid-editor?hosting=server&tab=overview

[chaithu kumar]

Thank a lot for the response.

[Alexey Matveev]

You are welcome!