Creation of dependencies in JIRA custom fields

[Franziska Wiebels]

Hello,

We would like to create a JIRA form with custom fields which offers the opportunity to create dependencies between individual custom fields. E.g. custom field A has been selected and a further drop down or text field appears which offers the opportunity to insert something in relation to custom field A. If you choose customer field B other options will appear and so on.

Is there any functionality or plug-in which can be installed?

Thank you for advice.

Best,

Franziska

[John Funk]

Hi Franziska,

We use the ProForma Forms add-on to be able to do that. 

[Hema TB]

Hi @John Funk Can you please let me know, how you have achieved the fields dependency using ProForma plugin?

[John Funk]

Sure - you do it by adding sections. And then you make the section conditional depending on the value of a previous field. 

Then place your second field in the new section that appears conditionally based on the value of the first field. 

[Hema TB]

@John FunkThanks for the answer. Its working now.

[John Funk]

Great! Can you click on the Accept Answer button above to close this one out? Thanks!

[Joseph Babalola]

@John Funk is the PRO FORMA add on still available? I don't see it in the marketplace

[John Funk]

Hi @Joseph Babalola  - Welcome to the Atlassian Community! Is this for Jira Cloud? If so, you don't need an add-on, it is built in. But you will need Jira Service Management subscription to use with JSM projects or Jira Software premium subscription to use with Jira Work Management. 

[Laura Campbell _Seibert Media_]

Hi @Franziska Wiebels ,

Could you describe a little bit more the kind of data you have in your select list custom fields? Do you have just a handful of options? Or maybe tens/hundreds? How are you maintaining the options?

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Hey @Franziska Wiebels ,

i'm afraid such functionality does not exist out of the box (and certainly not on cloud).

Adaptavist has a solution like this on the Server platform (called behaviours) which I know they are looking at also implementing towards the Cloud platform but no guarantees towards that.

https://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/SFJCL/Dynamically+show+and+hide+fields 

It's not an easy feature to implement as the API's don't always allow the customization of the form on Cloud.

You could take a look at ProForma forms https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215833/proforma-forms-checklist-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview and see whether that provide you with an adequate answer.