Force Title Case for Issue Field

[Gideon Stettler]

Hi everyone

Does anyone know a way to force title case (APA) for Jira issue fields (in my case the summary field)?

Regards,

Gideon

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Do you mean the case of the lettering?  If so, I hope you mean you are going to be forcing people to STOP SHOUTING and use their words properly.

[Gideon Stettler]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- Not exactly. 
According to APA (see https://capitalizemytitle.com/) most words would start with capital letters, but yes, also "SHOWTING" would be converted to "Showting".

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Well, most fields wouldn't be used as titles, especially issue summaries, and it's not really good to write anything with title case, but first-letter-only capitalisation isn't shouting when you do have a title field :-)

You'll need to find or write an app to do this, and there's a couple of approaches.  The two most obvious ones would be

• Validation - when someone creates or transitions an issue, check the title field and if it's wrong, go back to the human and tell them that you want it written differently
• Automation - do the check and just change the data for them. 

There is a risk in both of these - you're stopping the human writing the way they want.  Not a bad thing for some of us, but good writers are going to get annoyed at the control or mangling what they're saying.

[Gideon Stettler]

Thanks @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-for your suggestions. 

I understand your concerns about the fact that another person's text would be changed, but I think with clear information about the automation-task, it wouldn't be a problem for us, as people know about the guidelines for titles. So it actually would be helpful.

Do you have any idea how this could be done with automation?