What is Field Mirror For Jira (FMJ)
Field Mirror For Jira
Field Mirror for Jira is a plugin for Jira software teams that need to organize work. FMJ is incredibly flexible and can be customized to work, meaning teams who clone or transfer part of issue data can enjoy increased productivity and visibility as they march toward releasing amazing software.
To enable its features, create Mirror and define its mapping rule to reflect of source project issue data and also Add Mirror custom field to selected projects.
Create Mirror and define rule
To create mirror press gg to search for Config Field Mirror and find admin page.
Click on Add Mirror and type unique mirror name.
Select project and issue type where data has to reflect or map to.
User can select all supported fields from source custom fields to destination custom fields to add a rule.
At the bottom, hit Add Mirror Rule to create mirror.
Defined Mirror Rule will get displayed in Config Field Mirror page table as shown below.
Now user can add Mirror custom field to reflect defined Mirror rule.
Not all the custom field types from your Jira instance might be listed here.
We are extending support for more and more field type in the new releases. In case you want us to extend support for a specific field type, please reach out to us.
How to Create and Add Mirror Custom Field
Mirror Custom field is a field type widget which helps user to reflect issue data of supported field types.
Let’s jump in to add Mirror Custom Field.
1) Navigate to custom fields tab >Add custom field > Advanced
2) Search for Mirror
Give a name to the field and click on next to configure custom field.
you can select Mirror field type to All issue types and apply to all issues on your instances or customize as per requirements.
Let’s make field as default in all projects and issue types.
Click Create to Associate field Mirror to screens and update .
Navigate to custom fields tab to check created Mirror custom field.
Now lets reflect issue data.
Time to Reflect Issue
Click on create button on Navigation Header Bar.
Find Mirror field below in create, edit issue screens once after you Add custom field and associate to project screens.
Select Rule and search for issue key to get list of possible matches below text field as a suggestions.
Select an Issue-Key suggestion you would like to get reflected.
Now hit on reflect mapping rule fields to see added rules are reflected on create issue screen.
Widget shows a Reflect Applied message along with true icon as a success reflection.
Check the reflected and necessary data filled for create issue screen.
Finally, proceed to create ticket with reflected issue data on create issue screen.