Remove required option from a field

[Vasilis Gennaris]

How can i make a remove the default option required from a field when there is not available button for it?

[Josh Steckler]

You can't remove the Required from epic name. Why do you want to? This is an essential function of Epic, and this field will only ever be visible on the Epic issue type. Even if a screen you're using has the field, if you put it on another issue type such as story, it will not be visible.

[Alex Christensen]

To build on this - if you don't want your users to have to set the Epic Name field on Epics, you could technically hide the Epic Name field from the create screen, then use a post-function to set the Epic Name field automatically based on whatever the user entered in the Summary field (you may need an add-on to do this, though).

[Federico Zivolo]

This doesn't seem to be possible anymore, it won't allow you to create the epic even though I have an automation that would set the Epic Name to the Summary content (I also tried the opposite)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's never been possible, you have to give the Epic name AND Summary on the create issue screen for an Epic.

The closest you can get is to choose which one you want to keep and write a post function that replaces what the user enters with the content you want to keep.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You don't.  The "locked" next to the field means you cannot change them.

There are ways to unlock fields in the database.  But don't.  There's a good reason they are locked.  In the case of Epic Name, chunks of Jira Software stop working if the field is left empty, so it's a spectacularly bad thing to do.

[Deleted user]

Hi @Vasilis Gennaris,

The best practice is not to unlock the locked fields. The fields are locked to prevent accidental changes which can subsequently break the operation of JIRA Software. But if you still would like to unlock the fields you can check the Kb article 

How to unlock a Locked field

Regards,

Vijay Ramamurthy

[Vasilis Gennaris]

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- @[deleted] Actually i am not trying to unlock it, i just want to remove the required..

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The lock is there to stop you breaking your system by removing the required flag.

Please, don't do it.  If you do, you will break Software in interesting ways.

[Joe Pitt]

Interesting usually means very hard to debug and issues aren't obviously related to what you did.