Users who are new to JIRA often find it confusing when it comes to filling in fields, especially custom fields. So it is useful for you as the administrator to provide useful tips and descriptions to explain what some of the fields are for.
In this recipe, we will be adding a help icon for the Team custom field.
Proceed with the following steps to add help tips to a custom field:
Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
Navigate to Administration | Issues | Custom Fields.
Click on the Edit link for the custom field.
Enter the following HTML snippets into the Description text box, and click on Update. You might want to substitute the
hrefvalue to a real page containing help text.Need help to work out Team assignment? Try this:
<a class="help-lnk" href="/secure/ShowConstantsHelp.jspa?decorator=popup#Teams" title="Get help about Team" data-helplink="local" target="_blank"> <span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-help"></span...