"Smart Checklist" Custom Field setup instructions

The Smart Checklist custom field enhances your workflow by enabling advanced JQL search capabilities and displaying checklist data in Confluence or Jira Dashboards.

☝🏼NOTE: This page is primarily relevant for Smart Checklist add-on versions earlier than v.5.0.0.

For v.5.0.0 and above, Smart Checklist automatically sets up all custom fields during installation. However, you may still find useful information here about manual field configuration.

👤 JIRA PERMISSION REQUIRED: Make sure you have JIRA Administrators global permission to Configure Custom Fields.

Purpose 🎯

Used to perform advanced searches with JQL → JQL Search Checklists
Enables checklist data to be displayed in Confluence or Jira Dashboards → Show checklists in Confluence or Jira Dashboard

Setup Guide

Go to Issues → Custom Fields in your Jira Administration settings.
Click the Add custom field button.
Choose Advanced → Smart Checklist Custom Field → click the Next button.

Set the name to “Smart Checklist” 👉🏼 Be sure to use the exact capitalization and wording.

Configure Context of the field:
a. Select Apply to Issues in selected projects if you only need the field to be available in specific projects.
b. Select Apply to all issues on your instance if you want JQL search to work well for all issues in the Jira instance.

Associate the Smart Checklist custom field with screens where you want the checklist data to be properly formatted, mirroring the formatting seen in the Smart Checklist window.

You are all set! 🚀