Now that we have our custom fields ready, the next step is to create a new field configuration so that we can specify the behaviors of our custom fields. What we will do here is set both new custom fields as required, so when the issues are entered in Jira, users will have to enter a value for them. But the Direct Manager field should only be required when creating a New Employee issue, and not Termination. To do this, we need to create two field configurations:
- Browse to the View Field Configurations page.
- Click on the Add Field Configuration button.
- Name the new field configuration New Employee Field Configuration
- Click on the Add button to create a new field configuration. Now that we have our new field configuration, we can start adding configurations to our new custom fields.
- Click on the Required link for the Direct Manager custom field.
- Repeat Steps 2 to 5 to create a new Termination Field Configuration, and make the Last Day field mandatory.