Custom fields for any Kanban Task.

[mihai namolosanu]

Hi all,

I am very new to Jira. 

I find out how to add a custom field for a project (ex. Original Estimate). 

BUT I would like to add that custom field for any new Kanban Project. I found out that I have to do it every time I create a new project).

Is there any way to add a custom field for Task issue type, for all the current and future Kanban Projects in our account?

Thank you! 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, because Kanban doesn't have (variable) estimates.  If you want to use them in Kanban projects, you have to add them manually, because the project creation templates won't include them for Kanbans.

[Jack Brickey]

Ah...true. I didn't zero in n the OE bit in the question.

[mihai namolosanu]

Thank you for clarifications!

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @mihai namolosanu , welcome to the community.

Assuming that you are using company managed projects (this is discernible by looking in the bottom left corner of your project page) then you can use schemes to share configurations between projects. If you know that you will have a number of projects set up with the same screen configurations, then you can set up one and then reuse that screen scheme on the other projects. Screen schemes are associated under project settings/issues/screens. Here is some documentation that talks about issue layouts that might be useful as well - configure-field-layout-in-the-issue-view