What to do when missing the Original and Remaining Estimate fields in JIRA?

[Heather Stoddard]

I'm working in a JIRA cloud instance and testing out Portfolio for JIRA. It says that the estimation fields are required for it to work. I do not seem to have the Original Estimate or Remaining Estimate fields in my JIRA instance. Is there a way to get those back? Or is there a way to map custom estimate fields to Portfolio? 

Thanks! 

[Tarun Sapra · Accepted solution]

Hello @Heather Stoddard

Please make sure you have time tracking enabled on the cloud instance 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/configuring-time-tracking-818578858.html

And also add the "Time tracking" field to the screens of the issueTypes -> projects. 

See here

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/The-Original-Estimate-field-is-missing-when-creating-stories-and/qaq-p/95261

[Heather Stoddard]

The Time Tracking was active. I granted permissions to application access: Jira software. I went back and tried to add the fields to my issue screens, but it's still not available as a choice. 

[Tarun Sapra]

The field which you have to add is called "Time tracking"

[Heather Stoddard]

Thank you! This did it! Now I just have to figure out how to make the User Story time tracking will have an effect on the Epic Remaining Time. 

[Tarun Sapra]

Glad to know that it's working, could you please accept/upvote the answer so that other users are helped as well. Thanks.

[Dave Sausville]

So is `Remaining Estimate` a field that can no longer be displayed on its own?  We don't actually use Jira tickets to log time, so having a `Time Tracking` field on the ticket is extremely confusing.