IS THERE A REASON WHY THE 'ENVIRONMENT' FIELD IS A TEXT FIELD

Hadas Hamerovv
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May 11, 2022

To me it is more intuitive to have a dropdown list but before creating a custom field and dismissing this system field I would want to verify that I am not missing something

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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May 11, 2022

TLDR: History

Jira 1 had a need to capture environment details, but no way to do it usefully with a custom field, so Scott and Mike put in a free-text field to prompt people to tell them about the environment the issue had been found in.

You're absolutely right in that it's more intuitive to have a drop-down.  The first two custom fields I ever added to Jira were a  pair of "Tell me which environment you're looking at" fields.  One said "MOBO, MOFT, TBO or other", and the other was "Prod, UAT, dev 1, dev 2, dev 3.... etc".

So, you're not missing anything.  The "system" environment field is mostly a hangover and if you have no use for a free text field called environment, just ignore it.   It's the only system field that doesn't have any special functions or quirks attached!

Hadas Hamerovv
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May 12, 2022

Thanks.

This Brings me to the second question: Can I change its name?

The reason is that If I create a custom field with the same name I never know which one is the one I need (for example when editing a screen or a field configuration)

Hadas Hamerovv
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May 12, 2022

Oh, and one more question:

What is MOBO, MOFT, TBO ...

And, UAT is an environment?

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May 12, 2022

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- , I am unfamiliar with this field. Can you point me to it? I understand the concept of the field and have used similar in other products but have never run across this in Jira cloud.

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May 12, 2022

@Jack Brickey  - yep, it's a system field, so it's company-managed projects based.  That means you don't see it on the list of custom fields, but you can add it to screens and set it's renderer, make it mandatory or hide it in the field configurations.

I don't think I've seen it used in any of the project templates for a while, so it's something we have to go add if we want it.

@Hadas Hamerovv - those were the names of systems I did support and development, and eventually because the (technical) owner of, <mumble> years ago.  UAT is a common acronym for "User Acceptance Test"

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Mr_ Beedell_ Roke Julian Lockhart
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October 21, 2024

This explanation of how to replace it might be useful:

You can add a custom field (field type: Select List) for this. Then configure your screens, so that you remove the out-of-the-box 'Environment' field and replace it with your custom field.

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Jack Brickey
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May 11, 2022

Hi @Hadas Hamerovv ,

I am not familiar with the environment field. Is it possible that this is a custom field that an admin created? What type of project is this?

Mr_ Beedell_ Roke Julian Lockhart
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October 21, 2024

This official documentation explains:

Environment is a system field, it's free-text and used to register information about the environment from where the ticket was generated.

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