Saving the value of a Metric/Method in a custom field

Backlog Prioritization App brings certain out-of-the-box fields, one of them is Score. Since this is an application-introduced field, you can use it in JQL and a few other places but not all. For Example, you cannot use the default Score field in Dashboards and Jira Plans.

You can do this by auto-saving the value of Score into a Custom Jira Field.

In order to be able to save a metric or method value into a custom field we need to follow the steps below.

Create a Custom Field

Go to Settings>Issues>Custom Field and click on Create Custom Fields.

Choose a number field and give it an appropriate name.

Add this new Field to the “Edit” Issue Screen

If your project does not have a separate Edit Issue Screen you can create it. Go to Project Settings>Issues>Screens. Now you will need to make a copy of the Default Issue Screen.

Add Custom Fields to the Screen

Once you have copied the screen, click on Configure and add the custom field to that screen.

Associate the screen with the Edit Issue Operation

Now go back to Project Settings>Issues>Screens and click on the edit icon beside the Default Screen Schema

Now Associate an issue operation with a screen and selected edit issue in the operations dropdown and chose the copied screen.

Note:These custom fields will not be displayed in the edit issue screen.

Assign the Metric/Method value to the Custom Field

Once this is done, now you can go to Backlog Prioritization >Metric or Method tab .Edit the desired metric or method and while going to the Persistence tab you can save the value of the method or metric into the custom field.

You could follow the same steps above if you wish to save the label of the metric in a custom field. The only difference will be in this case you need to create a custom field of field type as text.

Please note - To show this field on Jira Roadmap / Plans, you need to add this Custom Field first under plan settings. In the example screenshot below, the custom field is Prioritization Score.