How do I make certain fields mandatory when creating new issues

[Joe McCorison]

I am looking at how I can make certain fields mandatory, specifically start date, end date and original estimate on all issues. 

[Joe McCorison]

Thank you for the updated but I would like this to happen on any project created or existing in Jira. I am trying to avoid having to edit every project in the system.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Okay, are those projects company-managed? In that case you have the two options that I described below, you can either change the workflow if all the projects are using the same one, or change the field configuration scheme and then make sure all projects are using the same one. For new projects you would use the "share settings with existing project" that way it will use the same schemes as the existing project.

If you are using team-managed projects then there is currently no option that would allow you to do this for all projects, you would have to change each one since TMP are like an island with no outside access.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Joe McCorison,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Are you using a company-managed project or team-managed project? If it is a company-managed project you can edit the workflow and make your fields required when the issue is created, the other option is to make the fields to be always required by going to project settings > Fields and edit the field scheme to make them required. In a team-managed project you can go to Project settings > Issue types and then just expand the field you want to make required and check the box.