In this exercise, we will continue our setup for the project we have created in the previous chapter. We will add the following configurations to our project:
A set of new issue types that are specific to our HR project
Add our new issue types to the issue type scheme to make them available
Since our project is for the human resources team, we need to create a few custom issue types to augment the default ones that come with JIRA. For this exercise, we will create two new issue types, New Employee and Termination.
The first step to set up an issue type association is to create the two issue types we need, incident and ticket:
Browse to the Issue Types page.
Click on the Add Issue Type button.
Type
New Employee
in the Name field.Click on Add button to create the new issue type.
You should now see the new issue type in the table. Now, let's add the Termination
issue type:
Click on the Add Issue Type button again.
Type
Termination
in the Name field.Click on Add to...