How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to make a field required in Jira:

1. Log into Jira with a user that has a Jira administrators permission.
2. Navigate to Administration > Issues > Field Configurations.
3. Click on the Configure link for the field configuration used by the project and issue type.
4. Click on the Required link for the field you want to make required, such as Due Date.

Once you have marked a field as required, such as Due Date in our case, whenever you create or edit an issue, Jira will make sure a value is entered for it, as shown in the following screenshot:

We will now have a look at how these steps work.