Creating a new screen is like getting a blank piece of paper; the fun part is adding and arranging the fields on the screen. Fields in Jira are arranged and displayed from top to bottom in a single column. You have full control of what fields can be added and in what order they can be arranged.
The only exception to this is for the View screen. When you are viewing an issue, fields are grouped together by type. For example, user fields such as reporter and assignee are displayed together on the top right-hand side of the page. Also note that for built-in fields such as Summary and Issue type, even if you take them off the screen, they will still be displayed when viewing an issue. For these fields, you cannot change their position on the screen.
Jira also allows you to break your screens into tabs or pages within a form, and you can do all of this within a single configuration page. It is this level of flexibility combined with simplicity that makes Jira a very powerful tool.
Perform the following steps to configure an existing screen:
- Browse to the View Screens page
- Click on the Configure link for the screen you wish to configure
On this page, you can do the following:
- Add/remove fields onto the screen
- Rearrange the order of the fields
- Create/delete tabs on the screen
- Move fields from one tab to another