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Issue Type

Task/Bug/Improvement/New Feature

Options vary depending on the project definition. Choose most appropriate

Summary

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Brief heading clearly indicating what ticket is about

Description

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Detailed description explaining what is required/issue etc. Should include links to further documentation or additional test files as required.

Context how dis the issue seen/what is the request trying to solve and approriate details

Expected result/required solution depending on the nature of the ticket

Any other supporting or helpful information such the page a field needs adding to etc.

Component/s

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Select any of the listed components that this ticket applies to. Not all projects will have components defined.

PID Data

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If any PID information is required for the Assignee to do the Ticket it should be put in this field. This prevents the PID info being included in emails and summaries.

Priority

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Affects Version/s

Version No (can be more than one)

On Software related projects where each release has a version number this should indicate which version was being run when the issues was found. This is primarily applicable to Bugs

Due date

Date

When required by a deadline this date should be set. Leave blank if unknown and it can be used to schedule the ticket.

Linked Issues

relates to/blocks/is blocked by/causes/is caused by/duplicates/clones

If a ticket has related tickets or has an effect on other tickets this filed should be used to indicate which ticket. (Similarly the other ticket should be updated to reference back to this ticket)

Issues

Ticket References

Links to previous field and lists tickets that relate

Assignee

User Name

If you know who should be handling this issue then add them to the assignee field

Epic Link

Name of Epic this ticket is associated with

If Epics are being used to group a body of work broken in to separate tickets then this field should show which epic the current ticket is part of.

Labels

Label for task

Some times it is useful to label tasks with more resolution than the use of components can provide or because components are not appropriate for he given project.