Can I change the information visible when viewing an issue?

[Toby Moore]

So when viewing an issue in full screen (not in issue view when viewing a backlog, I mean full screen mode) can I change the information visible at the top of the page?

The reason is, I have some custom fields that are required for users to complete (e.g. actual estimate) which are not visible on this view currently so users have to edit the issue to get to this field.

Not a huge thing but it would just make their lives a little easier :)

[Deleted user · Accepted solution]

It has to be on the view screen and it has to have some value to be presented. :)

[Toby Moore]

Dam so I guess thats a no then! :( would be nice to customise those fields so that the ones I want easy access to are visible.

[Deleted user]

well if you want you can give it some default value so it would appear, for example 'please edit this' if its a text field or 0 if it's supposed to be a number

[Toby Moore]

good idea! Although sadly that wont work for me as I have validators on transitions to make sure that these fields are filled, I guess I could add another validator to make sure that that field had been edited but were probably getting into the realms of over complicating things then for not much value :)

[Deleted user]

well it sounds like you are using some plugin for validating, see if you can create validator that would check if the value is other than 'please edit this'. It shouldn't be a problem, if it could save your users some time.

Best regards :D

[Toby Moore]

So, I kinda went down your route and got a result!

1) Set my default answer for my "Estimate" drop down to 'Required'

2) Went into my workflow and added a "Regular Expression Check" validator (basic Jira one) onto the transition where I wanted to check that an estimate had been added and made sure it would only let users pass if the "Estimate" field matched 0.5, 1, 3, 5, 10 

3) it works :)