Quick guide

This chapter will guide you through the features Issue Templates for Jira offers and explain how to use them.

Set up Templates repository

Template repository is a project that stores your templates. You can either create a separate project for your templates or use one of your existing projects to store them. You can have some issues in your regular Jira project turned into templates just for your team.

Templates created in a repository can be used for creating repetitive tasks in Jira.

Steps

To set up a Templates repository:

1. Navigate to Jira Settings > Apps
2. Click Configuration in Issue Templates for Jira section, on the left sidebar.
3. Click Add new repository.

For details, see Templates Repository chapter.

Next steps

Navigate to the following chapters to find out more about the features:

• Create and use templates
• Recreate whole issue structures
• Automation and REST API
• Smart Defaults