What's the syntax for checkboxes in JIRA issues?

[Andrew Pennebaker]

As a power user, I want to be able to write checkboxes in my issues, so that I can manage my issues and subtasks better.

GitHub provides

[ ] /

for this. Could there be a similar syntax for checkboxes in JIRA?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's a couple of things you might mean here.

First, do you mean as part of the text?  The rich text boxes have  and  amongst others.

Second, do you mean as a field?  As an admin, you can add multi-checkbox fields.

[Andrew Pennebaker]

Yes, as part of the text. I can't see any rich text option for this (at least in the free BitBucket plan). Even if I did, I want to be able to create checkboxes by using Markdown syntax, rather than hitting a bunch of GUI buttons.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ok, the text boxes have "renderers". If you're using a plain renderer, there's not a lot you can do. But if you swap to a rich renderer, then it'll accept and display wiki markup. You can change the renderer for a field in the project's "field configuration" (note that the renderer only applies to rendering, the underlying data in the field does not change) Once you're in a rich field, you can use ( / ) and ( x ) to get the marks I gave in my answer - remove the spaces from what I've just typed though! There are others - try ? and ! for example.

[Andrew Pennebaker]

Ah, makes sense. I don't see Field Configuration in my project's settings.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sorry, it should be "Field configuration scheme". That scheme tells the project what "field configuraition" to use for each issue type in your project (there's a good chance that there is only one field configuraion in use)