From the course: Complete Guide to Jira Administration: Configuration, Management, and Automation

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Managing and sharing schemes

Managing and sharing schemes

- By now, you've created two new Jira projects. Great start, but now we need to understand how to manage project settings. We'll start by defining schemes and how they're used to power Jira projects and why to share them between multiple projects. A scheme is a configuration or collection of settings. A scheme allows you to use settings differently in the same Jira project or share settings between multiple projects. The example shows a workflow scheme. A workflow scheme is a mapping of workflows to issue types. For example, a bug issue type might function differently than a task in the same project. In the table, the bug has an additional field present that doesn't apply to the task. Additionally, the bug has a longer workflow, or a bug can behave the same or differently in other Jira projects. In the example, a bug in Project B has an additional field, and the workflow statuses are slightly different. Schemes make it possible to use the same objects in different ways. Schemes only…

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