Custom Work Item fields

Polarion provides a default set of data fields for Work Items which are adequate for many teams and projects. But if you need to track additional data with Work Items, you are not limited to the default fields. You can define custom fields of various data types. You can make them applicable to all Work Item types, or limit them to one or more specific types, and you can optionally define them as required fields. For example, if you have several products and Work Items are somehow applicable to a specific product, you might create a custom field "Product". You could also create an enumeration to store a list of products from which users can pick a value when filling in the custom field. Custom fields can be used as search parameters in queries. For example, if you have a custom "Product" field, users can query for Work Items that contain a value in that field.

So in planning for a new project, give some thought to what additional data you need to track for each Work Item type and plan to create custom fields to track it. You define custom fields in Administration Work Items Custom Fields. For more information see Configure Custom Fields.