What are field configurations and field configuration schemes?

As administrator, you can group fields in your site into field configurations for easy management. You can then use these in Field configuration schemes to make fields appear in specific projects and work types.

To do this, the steps are as follows:

• first create the fields that you need

• then create a field configuration which serves as a group of fields you want to show together on a specific work type or types

• finally create a field configuration scheme that you can use in your projects. These schemes are also where you can map groups of fields to specific work types.

Let’s give this some real world context: the development teams in your organization require unique fields as part of their work processes that no other teams do. They also require a slightly different set of fields based on the work type – i.e. Bugs require a field that Tasks do not.

Once all of the fields have been created, you’d first make a separate field configuration for Bug and Task work items that contains the fields you want to appear on each.

You’d then add those configurations to a field configuration scheme, and associate it to their development projects. Then, in the individual projects, you would apply the field configurations from the scheme to the individual work types – Bug and Task.

After this, you’ll have a standardized group of fields that can be applied at the individual work type levels based on the project’s needs.