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I want to Know the field types of certain fields in Jira

@Akshithrekulapelli February 8, 2023

Project
Priority
Issue Type
Summary 
Description
Assignee
Status
Created
Last modified
Reporter
Component/s
Security Level

All these are system field which I am unable to check.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 8, 2023

Technically, all of those are of a "type" given by their name already!  The code behind them defines them all explicitly.  So "project" is a "project" type field, "created" is a "created" type field and so-on.

You can compare them to custom field types in terms of how they behave though:

Project, issue type, priority and security level appear to work as select-lists.  So does status but it's important to understand that status is not a field, it's a display of an issue's position in the workflow.

Summary is short text, a single line, Description and Environment are long text, you can load them with as much text as you want.

Created and updated are read-only date/time fields, calculated for you

Reporter and assignee work as user pickers, with the selection options controlled by permissions

Components, fix versions and affects versions all work as though they are a multi-select field, with their options defined in the project settings, rather than as options in the field config

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John Funk
Community Champion
February 8, 2023

Hi Akshith - they are just systems fields. Curious why are you needing to know the types? 

@Akshithrekulapelli February 8, 2023

We are integrating with salesforce team they are asking the field types it will helpful for them while doing the field mappings

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Jack Brickey
Community Champion
February 8, 2023

Hi @Akshithrekulapelli , all of these are system fields and as such don't have the same field types as custom fields but let me give it a go here...

Project - this is not a field, unless you have created a custom field called project
Priority - special system field based on select drop-down
Issue Type - special system field based on select drop-down 
Summary - text field
Description - text field 
Assignee - user picker
Status - special system field based on text
Created - date field
Last modified - date field
Reporter - user picker
Component/s - special system field based on text
Security Level - special system field based on select drop-down 

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