Develop a suggestion for epics/stories

Harshit Garg September 24, 2024

Hello, when a user starts writing epics or stories, I want to show suggestions to the user as a form of drop-down that they can select or reject. 

I have set up a local jira dashboard and made a project. I want to make it such that I can 

1) get all the project related information first

2) populate the title of epics or user stories or issues etc. 

Right now, I only want to change it in local dashboard and later on I will like to give suggestions to actual jira users. 

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Andy Heinzer
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September 26, 2024

Hi @Harshit Garg 

I am not sure I fully understand what you are looking for.  It sounds like when users are creating issues, you want Jira to suggest a pre-defined set of issues based on other issues currently in that Jira site/project.  Is that about right? 

I suspect that Jira cannot be made to do what you are seeking the current state.  However I came across this feature request over in JRACLOUD-84128 - Display "Work Suggestions" for issues from all Projects that are fetched on a Board. Which deals more with what issues are suggested to each user to work on, once already created.

But if it's more along the lines of wanting to create a sub-set of repeatable issues, in a sense of a template, then perhaps JRACLOUD-7731 is more appropriate of a request.  That issue is not likely to a feature that Atlassian will implement though.  There are several marketplace apps that specialize in issue templates to create issues instead already.

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Seon Shakespeare
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September 24, 2024

Hi Harshit,

Welcome to the community!

You're looking to add a feature that suggests Epic and story titles as users type. This isn't something Jira does out of the box, and building a custom solution might be quite complex.

Here's an idea:

  • Add helpful text to fields: You can guide users on how to write good Epic and story titles by adding helpful text to the relevant fields. For example, for stories, you could encourage them to use the format "As a [role], I want [goal], so that [benefit]." You can add help text to fields by editing the field descriptions in the Field Configuration settings.

You can also visit https://jira.atlassian.com to search for existing suggestions that might be similar, or create a new suggestion if you don't find anything relevant.

Hope this helps!

Harshit Garg September 24, 2024

Hello, I want some way to suggest to user a 3-5 epics or stories that they can then select. I want it to be triggered when the user clicks on create epic/user stories and starts typing. If drop-down menu is not possible there, is some sort of inline suggestion possible? something that they can select by pressing Tab perhaps like in copilot? If it is, can you guide me on how to proceed.

Seon Shakespeare
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September 26, 2024

Hi Harshit, as Andy mentioned, Jira can't currently do what you're looking for. But he did link to a couple of feature requests that you could check out and vote on!

Harshit Garg October 8, 2024

Hi andy, are there any APIs exposed by Jira to get project description and to also add UI elements to Jira dashboard that we can use? 

Whether by a Jira Plugin or any external web application? 

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