Customize PR screen

[Christa Meck]

Hey Bitbucket geniuses!  

I'm a Jira/Confluence admin and don't know much about Bitbucket because I don't traditionally write code.  I have a coder in the house that can translate for me so be descriptive and talk shop if needed.   :)

I want to be like Jira and add a Custom Field on the Create a PR page.  

Use Case: I'd like a field named Release Notes that the dev can fill in while in Bitbucket.  This field will get sent to Jira where the writers can have a dashboard that collects all the PRs with Release Notes in them.

Is it possible?  I saw the documentation about {{commit_messages}} but that's not very elegant.  Is that all we've got?

Thank you!

- Christa

[Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Accepted solution]

@Christa Meck This is not possible to add custom fields to pull requests in Bitbucket Cloud.

Why don't you just use the standard "Description" field for the purpose you mentioned?

Even if you use it for another purpose (actually describing the PR, e.g.), you could maybe introduce a convention that the "Description" must contain a section led by the title "Release notes" which contains the release notes part. Then you can parse that text fragment from the complete description when compiling the release notes.

(Or, use a block quote or some other text block.) 

[Christa Meck]

Thanks @Aron Gombas _Midori_ 

Implementing a change in our template and/or people processes is completely reasonable.  :)