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After all team members agree on an issue estimate you usually want to have the agreed value saved in some Jira custom field (we call it the estimation field). For scrum boards the field can be defined in board configuration. For kanban boards you can define the estimation field in the poker session settings.

In Agile Poker for Jira Cloud you can estimate only issues with the estimation field visible on the issue view screen. If  that estimation field is set as valid for the right issue types. If some issues (e.g. bugs, tasks) are not visible in Agile Poker for Jira it means you have to add estimation field (for example: Story Points) to relevant issue type.


How can I add

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Story Points to a custom issue type?

To enable the Story Points (or any other estimation field) for different issue types first go to the Project Settings -> Fields -> Actions/Edit Fields -> Custom Fields

Find Story Points on the list and then click on the three dots icon and select Contexts and default value.

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That should let you change the context of the field to include other issue types. Click on Edit Configuration

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And then please select the applicable issue types.

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You may also need to add Story Points field to relevant screens sometimes the Field Configurations may also be hiding the Story Points.


Configuring estimation

For scrum boards the field can be defined in board configuration. For kanban boards you can define the estimation field in the poker session settings.

Managing fields visibility in Jira is a tricky topic and we recommend using field helper for this:

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