As we have seen in previous recipes, you can configure a field's behavior with field configuration. JIRA not only comes with a default field configuration that is applied to all project and issue types by default, but it also lets you create your own so that you can choose the projects and/or issue types to apply your field configuration to.
In this recipe, we will make the Description and Assignee fields required only for the Task issue type.
Setting up a new field configuration is a three-step process. The first step is to create the new field configurations:
Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
Navigate to Administration | Issues | Field Configurations.
Click on the Add Field Configuration button, and name it
Task Field Configuration
; click on Add.Click on the Required link for the Description and Assignee fields.
The second step is to associate the new field configuration with a new field configuration scheme:
Navigate to Administration ...