Many thanks for reporting this issue, however this is not something we plan to add to JIRA Agile at this time.

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JIRA Agile Team

@Whyves – This is not possible in the OnDemand version.

@Tom

Custom fields are an integral part of JIRA. Atlassian already has the Multi Checkboxes Custom Fields. Checklist is roughly based on it and uses the same mechanisms but it adds more features. At the end of the day, if Atlassian was to "integrate" Checklist, they would implement it as a custom field either.

@Whyves, this looks real ideal, thanks.

Here is the vendor's help page http://www.okapya.com/jira-agile-definition-of-done-acceptance-criteria

I am reluctant to start using another plugin with custom fields when this should be built in functionality. Atlassian should buy Okapya!

You way want to take a look at this JIRA add-on: Checklist.

It is a custom field that can be added to any issue type (e.g. Story). You can also use a workflow validator to prevent the transition of the issue until the acceptance criteria have been checked. It will display the criteria in a checkbox form.

This would be incredibly useful to better organizing the criteria as a "first-class citizen", so to speak. We need to be able to record the status for each acceptance criteria. A simple checkbox would be nice (see JRA-3374) for 95% of projects.

If the acceptance criteria were sub-tasks behind the scenes, then we could even record status on the each criteria. For example, criteria could transition, if necessary for the project, from a status of 'developed' to 'accepted'.

The main point of having separate items for each acceptance criteria is (1) to provide a functional status on a story and (2) to log the acceptance of each passing criteria by a responsible stakeholder. The one-to-many nature of a user story to acceptance criteria is not well represented in a free-form text box. As-is, this seems to be something of an unpolished afterthought.