How to mark an issue as a Regression Bug or Reopened Issue

[Uri]

I want to be able to mark some issues as a Regression and Reopened. Looking at custom fields, I couldn't find any boolean fields to add. Any idea how to do that?

• Regression: should be true/false or true/none field (boolean).
• Reopened: should be a true/false or true/none field (boolean), that can't be set or changed by a user - it changes be a rule (when transitioning from Resolved to Todo)

By now, it works if I use text fields, but since it's not a boolean, the searches become complicated.

How can I use a boolean field as a custom field? Is there any other option for that?

[Stevan Mandić · Accepted solution]

@Uri you can create select list (single option) custom fields and define options in custom field configuration (context & default value)

Option 1: True

Option 2: False

[Nathan Phillips]

Hello @Uri 

I agree with @Stevan Mandić, a Select List custom field would be a great option to meet your needs.

More information on how to configure custom fields can be found here. 

Thanks!

[Uri]

Thank you @Stevan Mandić and @Nathan Phillips .
I was looking something like a boolean. The problem with strings is when doing a search, because not all the 'not true' are marked as 'false', because most of them can have this field empty

[Stevan Mandić]

@Uri 

You can solve that problem in 3 ways

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1. If you have true and false options set, you can treat "empty" as False

So your JQL for false state will be (field=False or field is empty)

2. Set default value for the field (for instance: False) and you will not have issues with empty field.

3. Instead of using two options, use only one option - True.

Then you will have 2 states of the field: True & empty ( non-empty & empty)