As our JIRA instance grows, demanding more and more information from the users through the custom fields, it becomes the norm to let the users know what we expect from them. Apart from a bunch of tutorials that we can prepare for them, it makes sense to give them some help right there on the screen, next to the field.
Let us see the various options on how to do it.
Make sure you have the custom field, for which the help needs to be displayed and configured properly.
You can edit the custom field under Administration | Issues | Fields | Custom Fields to modify the description of your custom field. If you have multiple field configurations, make sure you edit the custom field description under the field configuration used by your project and issue type.
But a small description might not be enough in many cases. Following are some of the ways in which you can provide detailed help for your users.
This is just common sense. Just link...