Create a rich text default value for a custom field
Platform Notice: Cloud - This article applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
Create a new custom field
Select > Issues.
Under FIELDS, select Custom fields.
Click Create custom field. Make sure to select All to view the available field options.
Select the type of field Paragraph (Supports rich text) and click Next. See a list and descriptions for the available custom field types in company-managed projects.
Add the details for your field.
The name you select appears as the custom field's title wherever the field appears. The description appears below the field when creating and editing issues, but not when browsing issues.
When you have entered the field details, select Create.
Add the new custom field to one or multiple desired screens by ticking the corresponding box and click Update.
To configure the layout of the new Jira issue view—which fields appear and the order they appear in—open an issue and choose Configure at the bottom-right. To find out more about configuring the issue layout, check out Configure field layout in the issue view.
Change the field's renderer
Before you change the renderer for a specific field, please read Configuring renderers, paying particular attention to the Implications for Jira operations section.
Select > Issues.
Under FIELDS, select Field Configurations to view all your field configurations.
Locate the field configuration of the field you created and click Renderers. This will take you to a page where you will have the option to select a renderer from all configured and available renderers.
Choose the renderer Wiki Style Renderer to use and click Update.
Set the default value for the custom field
Select > Issues.
Under FIELDS, click Custom fields.
Find the custom field you created, click > Contexts and default value.
In the configuration scheme section, select Edit Default Value.
Enter a default value using Text Formatting Notation. For example, to create tables you can use:
||heading 1||heading 2||heading 3|| |col A1|col A2|col A3| |col B1|col B2|col B3|
- Click Set Default.
Once you create the new issue the default value of the field you created will be shown in rich text format.
heading 1 | heading 2 | heading 3 |
---|---|---|
col A1 | col A2 | col A3 |
col B1 | col B2 | col B3 |