How to Add Acceptance Criteria to User Story

[Deleted user]

Is my understanding I have to edit Work Item types, but I never done it before- can someone give me the steps?  thanks

[Jack Hunter _HeroCoders_]

Hi @[deleted],

There are no built-in acceptance criteria handling in Jira so you need to use a substitute.

The few possible ways are:

• add acceptance criteria in the Description field and use available formatting
• add a multiline custom field named Acceptance Criteria
• use a third-party app.

When comes to third-party apps, there are many of them available in Atlassian Marketplace.

I can propose Issue Checklist Pro or Issue Checklist Free provided by my team that present acceptance criteria or definition of done in the form of Checklist. They both come with a set of useful features like:

• blocking issue resolving if acceptance criteria (checklist) is not completed
• full-screen editor
• default acceptance criteria for a project or issue type
• and many more. 

Cheers,
Jack

[Paweł Albecki]

Hi Jose,

Not sure what you mean by Work Item types. You can add Acceptance Criteria using text formatting directly in User Story description or install some add-on like Multiple Checklists for Jira which will help you manage Acceptance Criteria. 

Best,

Paweł