The HR project

Armed with the new knowledge that you have gathered in this chapter, together with fields from the previous chapter, it is time for you to further customize your Jira to provide a better user experience through presentation.

What we will do this time is create new screens and apply them to our HR project. We want to separate the new fields that are showing generic fields from our specialized custom fields designed for handling employee onboarding and termination. We also want to apply the changes to the issues of the New Employee and Termination types only, and not affect the other issue types in the project. As with any changes to be done on a production system, it is critical that you have a backup of your current data before applying changes.

Setting up screens

In Chapter 5, Field Management, you created a few custom fields specifically designed for our HR team. The problem we had is that all of the new fields show up for both the New Employee and Termination...