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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Built-in fields


JIRA comes with a number of built-in fields. You have already seen a few of them in the previous chapters. Fields such as summary, priority, and assignee are all built-in. They make up the backbone of an issue, and you cannot remove them from the system. For this reason, they are referred to as system fields.

The following table lists the most important built-in fields in JIRA:

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System field

Description

Assignee

This specifies the user who is currently assigned to work on the issue.

Summary

This specifies a one-line summary of the issue.

Description

This provides a detailed description of the issue.

Reporter

This specifies the user who has reported this issue (although most of the time it is also the person who has created the issue, but not always).

Component/s

This specifies the project components the issue belongs to.

Effects Version/s

This specifies the versions the issue effects are found in.

Fix Version/s

This specifies the versions the issue will be...