Using JIRA's native button "create", you can add new issues based on the configured form of your project. So, fields can be specified for input and they can be arranged on different tabs content-driven. This is quite helpful in complex scenarios. But very often, you just want to put in a set of tasks and their dependencies to be displayed on a Gantt-Chart: "fast creation" supports that approach since Gantt-Chart version 3.2 for the gantt product family and since version Gantt-Chart 4.2.0 for the new Gantt Project Panel as well.
Step-by-step guide
- Click on "+ create" on the bottom of the Gantt-Chart.
- Select your preferred issue type or take the default.
- Type in the new issue's summary text.
- Optionally, type in the issue's originally estimated effort: just hit [TAB] to switch focus from issue's summary to estimated effort. If you do not specify any effort, planned start date and planned end date will be set to the same date by default.
- Optionally, select the Gantt-dependency and the related already existing issue: searching by issue key as well as full-text search within the issues' summaries are provided.
- Hit [ENTER] to create the new issue or just click on the okay button
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