Adding custom fields to issues at project level?

[Martin Härri]

Microsoft Project has custom fields on task level (and resource level as well). The last version I worked with (2011) had something like 30 text fields, 30 number fields, 30 date fields, 30 flag fields etc.

On project level, these fields could then be used individually, i.e. project 1 might use TextField1 for some notes, project 2 use it for a pulldown list with a selection of items, project 3 for a text string calculated by some formula.

Is something like this available in Jira?

[Sergey Gussak · Accepted solution]

1. There are custom fields on the issue (task) level: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/adding-a-custom-field-938847222.html. You need to be an admin to configure them. 

2. There are no project- or user- (resource) level custom field in JIRA to my knowledge out-of-the-box.

3. You may be able to find a 3-rd party plug-in to add the custom field functionality to projects and/or users, but to install them one has to be an Admin.

[Martin Härri]

Thank you, Sergey, that is a very helpful response. I think I will look at the 3rd party plug-ins

[Gökçe Gürsel {Appfire}]

Hi Martin,

Jira has custom fields as well. You can refer to the documentation below:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/adding-a-custom-field-938847222.html

As a quick start guide > Go to Admin menu > navigate to custom fields menu > click add custom field > Select custom field type(Select list etc)

Let me know if you have further questions.

Best,

Gökçe

[Martin Härri]

Thank you for reply, Gokce. However, this article refers to custom fields which can only be created by the Jira server admins. They are extremely restrictive in adding such fields, because every project has different needs and implementing all those would create a "zoo" of custom fields.

What I mean is  a field which the admins of an individual project can customize. Any advice on this?

[Gökçe Gürsel {Appfire}]

I believe there are some plugins in the Marketplace that can achieve this.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Have a look at the field "context" when adding a custom field.  That allows you to have different field settings by project and issue type.