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Overview

Workflow Essentials for JIRA supports users through the whole process starting from the first workflow step: Creating Issues and Sub-Tasks. In JIRA you can also define global or Context-specific default values. But only for custom , but not for system fields, and only globally / not limited to the create screen.

With the "Default Values" Extension you can define Default Values in systems for system fields like summary and custom description and custom fields so that they will appear directly on the "Create Issue" / "Create Sub-Task" screen.

Note that you can also define default values on transitions with our "Set / Update Value Post Function".

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How to configure

The plugin adds a new configuration page of this extension can be found under Admin > "Add-ons" > "Default Values for Create Screens" (vertical menu) where . There you can set your default values for all your fields. Select the appropriate project (or the item "All projects") and issue type and put in your default values. You can also define global default values by choosing the option "All projects".

For example, set a default template for all User Stories you create in your project. So you can make sure, that the users always using the same structure for filling out your fields.

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• Summary
• Description
• Environment
• Due Date
  • supports a fixed date or a variable expression like +7d (certain days from now, as known from Jira markup)  

    Status
    colour Green title New in 9.3

• Original Estimate
  
  

Supported custom fields:

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• Issue Create Screens and 
• Sub-Task Create Screens

Templates

In this section you find some templates you can copy or use as starting point. Two common uses cases are defining templates for User Stories and for Bugs.

User Story Templates:

Summary

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