Project settings

How to configure project settings?

Project settings have an impact on merges done by any Jira user on issues from the current project. Below, we explain how to set them up to your needs.

Choose Projects and select a project in which you want to configure manual merging.
Under Project Settings, select Merge Issues.
Fill out the fields of your choice.
Click Save to save the configuration.

Configuration option name	Description
Projects	Target issues will be restricted to the selected projects. Empty means all projects are available.
Fields available to merge	By default, all fields can be merged (option No restrictions). If you choose at least one field, only fields selected here will be available to select on the ‘Merge to’ dialog.
Default fields to merge	Choose which fields should be selected on ‘Merge to’ dialog by default. You can select only from fields that are available to merge (setting above).
Source issue status	By default, all issues can be merged (option No restrictions). If you choose at least one status, only issues in that status will be possible to set as source issues.
Move source issue after merge to status	Transition source issue to selected status after a successful merge
Change resolution after merge to	Transition target issue to selected status after a successful merge
Sync next comments	When enabled, all future comments between merged issues will be synchronized
Stop comments sync	Feature to determine when ‘Sync next comments’ should stop working.
Incident Insights Panel	Enable the Panel in the issue view by ticking it off. The dropdown menu below allows you to customize the information displayed in this section.
Delete source issue	When enabled, the source issue will be deleted after the merge
Panel on issue view	When enabled, the Bulk Actions is visible on the issue screen. (By default this option is enabled)
Add reporter of source issue as request participant in target issue	Applied only to JSM issues