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This documentation relates to an older version 1.4 of the Structure Plugin for JIRA. View the current documentation home.

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Structure plugin lets you create new issues right in the structure. The new issue becomes a "clone" of the selected issue - it has the same Project, Type and most other attributes, but you need to enter the summary for the new issue in the Summary field.

To create a new issue:

  1. Select an existing issue in the structure.
  2. Do one of the following:
    1. Either click New Issue on the toolbar (you can also hit Enter on the keyboard);
    2. or click Sub-Issue on the toolbar (you can also hit Insert or Shift+Enter on the keyboard).
  3. Depending on the selected action, an editor for the new issue will be shown either as the successor of the selected issue or as its first sub-issue.
  4. Enter the new issue's summary and hit Enter to finish editing and create new issue on the server.
    1. Hit Escape to cancel creating new issue while you are still editing the Summary.

After you've provided the summary and pressed Enter, the structure widget displays only the Summary field for a short moment as it takes some time to actually create an issue in JIRA. After the widget receives the confirmation from the server that the issue has been created, other columns for that issue are loaded.

While the new issue is being uploaded to the server, you can start creating the next issue.

Using Edit Mode

Note that when you are creating a new issue, Structure widget is in the Edit Mode – you can also enter values for other fields besides Summary by clicking on the field to be modified, or using keyboard shortcuts. When you have hit Enter or clicked Done, the new issue will be created with those values you have entered.

Issue Type and Project fields are not editable when you create a new issue – the issue is created with the same project and type as the sample issue. However, if Issue Type is added to the Edit Screen, you will be able to change the type after the issue has been created.