JIRA comes with a number of issue types out of the box, that are designed for software project management. However, over time, you might find that these issue types do not apply to all of your projects, and you have added your own. In this recipe, we will look at how to manage the issue types so that each project can have its own set of issue types.
Proceed with the following steps to set up a project-specific issue type list:
- Navigate to Administration | Issues | Issue Type Schemes.
- Click on the Add Issue Type Scheme button.
- Enter the name for the new issue type scheme.
- Add issue types to the scheme by dragging them from right to left.
- Select the default issue type.
- Click on the Save button to create the new scheme, as shown in the following screenshot:
Having created your new issue type scheme, you now need to apply it to projects in which you want to restrict issue type selections:
- Click on the Associate link for the new issue type scheme.
- Select the project(s) you want to apply the scheme to.
- Click on Associate to change the selected projects' issue type scheme.
If the project has issues with issue types that do not exist in the new issue type scheme, JIRA will walk you through a migration process where you can update the issue type for all the impacted issues.