Add Tooltips to Jira Custom Fields

With our app you can display Jira field description as tooltips to save space in your screens and to make them more user-friendly. There are no additional configurations necessary!

To display tooltips you only fill out the Jira field description. Optionally use field configuration schemes to display different tooltips depending on the issue context. The standard Jira field description will automatically be hidden and displayed as tooltip as you can see in the screenshots below.

Content

1 Example Screen With and Without STAGIL Tooltips for Jira
- 1.1 With STAGIL Tooltips
- 1.2 Without STAGIL Tooltips
2 Tooltips in Issue View Screen
3 Tooltips in Jira Service Management

Example Screen With and Without STAGIL Tooltips for Jira

With STAGIL Tooltips

Description is stored in tooltip icon.
Tooltip is shown via mouse-hover.
Description text is hidden to save space.
Jira issue type and priority tooltips are hidden.

Without STAGIL Tooltips

Description is displayed as text.
Screen fits less fields, users have to scroll more.
Jira issue type and priority tooltips are present in screen.

Tooltips in Issue View Screen

When you are in the view screen of your issues, you can hover over field names to display your tooltips.

Tooltips in Jira Service Management

Since version 1.0.9, you can show tooltips in JSM requests as well.

This requires additional configuration. Go to JSM Project settings → Request types → Visible fields. Enter the tooltip text to the Field help bar.

After the steps above are completed, users can see configured helptext on request forms in the JSM portal.