JIRA comes with three screens by default: the Default Screen, the Resolve Issue Screen, and the Workflow Screen.
In this recipe, we will look at how to create a new screen from scratch, and then make it appear when we are creating a new issue of type Task.
The screen is one of the most complicated configurations in JIRA. To create a new screen and apply it often requires you to configure multiple schemes. So we will break these steps into three logical groups.
Firstly, we need to create our new screen:
Task Create Screen
click on Add.Secondly, we need to assign the new Task Create Screen to the Create Issue operation:
Task Screen Scheme
, select Default Screen as the Default Screen option, and click on Add.Third, we need to assign the new Task Screen Scheme to the Task issue type:
Task Issue Type Screen Scheme
.Lastly, we need to apply the new screen Task Issue Type Screen Scheme to the project:
The screen is one of the most intricate aspects of JIRA configuration. When we create a new screen, we need to associate it with one of the three issue operations (create, edit, and view) with screen scheme. In our recipe, we associated our new Task Create Screen with the Create Issue operation.
Screen schemes then need to be associated with issue types so that JIRA can determine which screen scheme to use, based on the selected issue type.
Lastly, we apply the Issue Type Screen Scheme to a project, so only the selected projects will have the associated screens. The following diagram provides a comprehensive illustration of the relationships between screens, fields, and their various schemes:
(Reference/credit from: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Fields+and+Screens)