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Project Settings

Requirements for JIRA works on your existing JIRA projects. In order to work with the plugin you just need to enable the projects you wish to use the plugin with.

In case you have not already created a JIRA project take a look at JIRA Project Management for further information.

On this page:

Table of Contents

Project Activation

Enabling a project

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  1. Login as Jira Administrator

  2. Choose ⚙ > Manage apps

  3. Select R4J - Requirements Management for Jira > Activate Projects from the sidebar
    (info) Keyboard shortcut 'g' + 'g' + start typing 'Activate Projects'

  4. In the Project section select a project from the dropdown menu to enable it for the use with the Requirements for JIRA plugin.
    Alternatively, add project categories to automatically add any project with any of the given categories assigned.

Disabling a project

  1. Login as Jira Administrator

  2. Choose ⚙ > Manage apps

  3. Select R4J - Requirements Management for Jira > Activate Projects from the sidebar
    (info) Keyboard shortcut 'g' + 'g' + start typing 'Activate Projects'

  4. In the Projects section locate the project you wish to disable

  5. Click on the delete icon next to the project key to exclude it from R4J

Custom Field Types

R4J Issue Revision

Previously named "Issue Version" and renamed to "R4J Issue Revision" from version 4.2.2.

This custom field type is a read-only field which displays the current R4J revision number value for the issue – only works for projects that are enabled for R4J. To add 

  1. Login as Jira Administrator

  2. Choose ⚙ > Issues

  3. Select Fields > Custom fields  from the sidebar
    (info) Keyboard shortcut 'g' + 'g' + start typing 'Custom fields'

  4.  In the top right of the screen, click on the Add custom field button

  5. Select All in the field type selection dialog and search for  R4J Issue Revision

  6. Click on next, fill-up the details and create the custom field type

Now, you can add this custom field to your project screen(s).

Recommendation: Add this field to the black list to avoid redundant information in the revision history.
You can add this custom field into the Word and Excel export templates.