Not what you were hopping for in terms of a native solution, but in case you are up for a cost-effective third party solution that's hosted by Atlassian.

Project Templates for Jira offers an efficient way to design custom project templates based on existing projects or Jira's built-in templates within a Jira lookalike user interface.

• Customize the templates configuration to meet your unique requirements

• Give non-admins template specific project creation power 

• Customize the UX & information displayed to non-admins 

• Clone project versions, components and project role actors

• Avoid the technical debt of unnecessary created Jira schemes/configurations

The app is built on Forge with no data egress, no sensible information stored and completely hosted in Atlassian's cloud infrastructure. 
Please let our support know if you have any questions.

Unlikely. This seems to be closed and opened as a duplicate here - JRACLOUD-7020 Allow support for project schemes or templates - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.

Is there any update on this?

Is that issue solved or stopped by Jira?

absolutely critical feature, not gonna use that without it

I vote FOR THIS 10000000.  Help us SAVE TIME !!!!!!!!!! Critical feature

No longer allows to vote, this is definitely a useful feature.  Smartsheets (customizations) are gaining popularity. 

Why has this ticket with the most interest been closed and the duplicate with less interest kept open?

The work around we have come up with is to create a template project and then copy it to each new project using the app Deep Clone. The Jira excel export/import functionality is horrendous and never works properly.

@Eric Schuh I really like what you say here regarding the stage gate process. It reminds me of when we requested templates (or something like them) at my client company (Equinix). Our Jira Admin team said two things, relevant to how Jira is implemented at this company, yet possibly relevant to all: 

"First, if custom Jira templates did exist, an implemented template would have to follow some project management workflow process, just like any regular Jira project. If the flow is in any way different from a defined workflow, a separate workflow process would have to be designed and then implemented for each template.

Secondly, if you wanted to implement templates from other teams, or partner companies and such, those would most likely have their own business processes and flows, and please see my first point."

At least as far as this Jira Admin team goes, they could not possibly have enough resources available to design, implement, and then manage hundreds to likely thousands of extra workflows and templates. It is at minimum, a quadruplication of effort. 

I would add to this that a company should be able to create a template that emulates their stage gate process.  When you create the project you get a few prompts.  Start date, amount of subassemblies that make up the overall product and then the timeline gets populated showing all the high level tasks such as validation and the low level tasks that make up validation (EMC, shipping test, life test, etc).  The assumption here is that most companies take their products through the same process with about the same timing.

When a project beats the timeline you could make it like Mario Kart where you can race the little ghost of your previous times.  You see where other projects were at at the same time period from your start date.

I realize stage gate is anti agile, but its not going away.  You can still have agile development inside the milestones and subassemblies.  

Any other recommended products?

We are also looking into other options. Looking at the costs of Atlassian subscriptions and the hassle to get things done we're looking into the usage of kuch sharepoint and maintained by an external party.

we are leaving Jira behind ... this is not the only issue and not the biggest, but one of them

x2

I had that coming

Here is another email for you Dave

How do I stop getting emails about this? It's annoying to keep getting updates about something that's been sitting for 7.5 years. I'm not watching it, and there is no unsubscribe option in the emails. Will withdrawing the vote work?

+1

But we would like to see a project template that has workflows, issue types etc. already setup by us, for use across multiple new projects.
I don't want to keep adding new issue types, statuses, workflows... for every new project

There is a relatively simple work around for this though, using the excel import issues functionality one can have the recurring issues in excel prepared and import them at the creation of each project.

for us absolute necessary to move from on-premise to cloud, please set it on the roadmap !

please

it is a required feature which really helpful.. 

Agreed. We're struggling with user adoption in some areas due to the complexity in project setup (a lot of non-technical users in the business), and a lot of error correction from users setting up incorrectly. The ability to give our users a pre-configured template that matches the company workflow is critical to our team.

This is critical to providing standard ways of working in any organisation, default is good but not always a good fit for everyone. A template enables easy project creation the same way every time to an organisation's requirements. We are all different which is exactly why Jira is such a great tool, it is easily adaptable to any situation.

Please add this feature.

Need more interest!!!

Come on guys...

And here in 2022, it is still gathering interest...

Everyone is tried of waiting and looks like this will be never a feature in Jira. Engineering team is not confident in delivering this capability

This would be amazing. We work with dozens of clients and as each one comes on board we need to do the same steps. Having to manually create each individual task is painful and this feels like a big win for the Jira team.

Creating custom Jira project templates is a must because every time you create a project with one of default templates you have to re-assign workflows, issue types, screens and delete the default ones... Why...?

Oh, so how many votes and comments get it reviewed?

When starting a new Software Development project, it would be good to have a template that includes subtasks with steps such as 'Arrange initial requirements meeting' or 'Define User Stories'.

This way we can ensure a process is being followed for new work and we can see the progress. Any one could start a new project, and we would have the confidence that the necessary steps are being completed to produce good requirements specification and a good level of information about the work to be done. Saves having a checklist in a document somewhere and then creating those steps in Jira every time we get new work.

In fact - not even assigned; I'm guessing the Jira Product Team have decided to ignore this thread then?

This is definately a "miss" by the Jira Product Team. It's pretty naive to imagine that organisations wouldn't want to present their managers with standard project setups - even the smallest organisation would benefit from this.

Hope there's some movement on this in the near future; reviewing other tools that may be lacking in some of the excellent functionality Jira has to offer but where this is significant enough (affecting every project created) to consider moving to another option.

Click 'View Issue' to see my previous post - I had to remove the images. 

Hi All, here's some interesting news on this topic that I hope is helpful...

A few weeks ago, I discovered a 'Forms' link in our EPD (Equinix Product Documentation) Jira project (right below the Timeline). I did not receive any notification about this, but after seeing it I decided to test it and see if we could use it for any departmental processes. 

I found the link when I clicked on the 'Projects' tab in Jira.  Before testing the form, I edited the default field labels in the form to match our Issue checklist, and added a new field object by dragging it onto the form.

After I added test content in the fields and clicked the 'Submit' button, a new ticket displayed on our Jira Board. It is easy to use! I wrote up a short procedure about how it works in my project if anyone is interested (includes images - this post did not accept my graphics).   

Anyway, check and see if the 'Forms builder link is in your Jira Project. If it isn't, contact your Jira Admin directly from Jira Settings or * fill out an *IT support ticket and request the Forms builder link. 

So far, I am happy that it at least the form process works...it does create a new ticket. Now to find something to use it for!  

Cheers,

Shaun 'Lee' Case 

My two cents... As a PM working for a relatively small organisation it would be a huge benefit to cut down admin time by being able to build and upload a project as a template for future use. I was suprised to see that this feature doesn't exist OOTB. 

I'm pretty shocked that such a basic feature dosn't exist - having it would ease a lot of pain for sure!

Would be great to have this feature, because it would help us to standardize projects and to save time for the setup.

I researched the Jira Template issue this week and there are two challenges:

1) Atlassian charges extra $$$$ for Cloud Template services (looks like $2K -$9K annual and UP) and;

2) It does not look like [Atlassian] includes an Editor with 'Templates', they turn the option on and allow you to select templates from a Template Marketplace where you can subscribe to 'Pre-made Templates'. 

Personally, I do not see the point of that, since no business changes their business rules or processes to fit a template - not even a small local pizza shop.

I will say that Product Documentation EPD has a small need for a custom template or two...but it needs to follow our internal Equinix Jira workflow and process.

Find out if there is a 'Template Designer' like the one SalesForce uses...or something similar.

Thanks! Shaun Lee Case 

Ticket created in 2014..     hmmm..

We're a small organization, we pay for a cloud solution because we don't have the resources for managing these tools 'in-house' en now we end up with configuring projects manually because of missing custom templates?

Our text-editor (1995) had these features already build in, FREE!

It's like we switched from our type-machine to Notepad. We're almost 10 years further Atlassian! for real?

yes please this would be a great feature!

Would love to see this feature, currently using 'Share settings with an existing project' in order to create some sort of templating

it would be great to have this feature integrated!!!

we hope to use the feature

It would be nice to have this feature, which should be basic indeed. When can we expect it?

We need this feature ASAP, as we are setting up multiple teams and projects in Jira Cloud and need the projects to follow a pre-defined university template for screens on issue types.

Hi All,

Just to note, after finding this limitation I tried for a while to spin-up new projects/epics etc using Automation. In theory it seemed possible, but I wanted to do it in a next-gen project and I found there are some bugs with the APIs for them. I didn't try it for classic projects. The only other workaround was to import a template from Microsoft Project via WBS Gannt charts, which took ages... That's right - I had to go to the competitor for assistance...!

We need this feature too.

This should be basic feature

This is not even assigned or prioritized. What is needed to prioritize this? Is Atlassian PO is even looking at backlog?

This is a basic requirement for any organisation be cloud / server. Please incoporate this feature with atmost priority

Would be very useful.

Trying to get to know Jira and set it up for our company and I'm horrified to find out that Jira doesn't have this kind of basic functionality....