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Normally, we put descriptions directly into the custom field's description textbox as
demonstrated. You can also put your descriptions into the field configuration settings, such
as hiding a field. Doing so offers the following advantages:
• You can have different help texts for different project/issue type contexts
• You can set help texts for fields that are not custom fields, such as
Summary
and
Description
Proceed with the following steps to set field descriptions in field configuration:
1. Navigate to
Administration
|
Issues
|
Field Configurations
.
2. Click on the
Configure
link for the field configuration used by the project and is-
sue type.
3. Click on the
Edit
link for the field.
4. Enter the HTML snippets into the
Description
field and click on
Update
.
