How can I add a default value for a mandatory field on issue creation?

[Vanessa Johnson]

Hi

Hope someone can help me!

I have made the Component field a mandatory field but I want to give it a default value when creating the issue. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Vanessa

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Helo @Vanessa Johnson 

The content of your questions doesn't seem to have anything to do with the title of your post.

Which question are you trying to get answered?

[Vanessa Johnson]

Sorry I changed the title (an old entry showed by mistake). I want to understand how to give a default value for a mandatory field when creating the issue

[Trudy Claspill]

For Custom Fields a Jira Administrator can modify the custom field definition to set a default value. Refer to:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-a-custom-field/

For the Component field specifically you can't set a default value with native Jira functionality, as it is a System field.

If you are open to using a third party app, you could do that with the Adaptavist Scriptrunner Behaviours app. While that app is free, it does require that you subscribe to the primary Scriptrunner app to get required supporting functionality.

[Vanessa Johnson]

Thanks I'll see what I can do with those options.

[Vanessa Johnson]

I ended up creating a new custom field and will have to do some data updates to use this new custom field