Jira Product Discovery - views and the fields
Asked by Boleslaw Nowak:

Hey everyone, first of all we really enjoy the piece of software that the Product Discovery brings to the table, and how it helps to manage things on the product side.

Wanted to ask about few things though - the field structure is not really clear to me, and their configuration:

![Screenshot 2023-03-14 at 16.22.51.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/245524i028A17F18E4634FF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-03-14 at 16.22.51.png")

How do I define those fields, is there a way to add/remove those from this view? It looks pretty similar to Jiras View configuration for issues, but I couldnt find the setting anywhere.

Secondly I'm creating a custom view - which is aimed for less tech-savy ppl which I wanted to be pretty basic, and simple to use as of reportin their ideas but when I would want to have a pretty simply flow within the view so the user creates an idea - adds its title, 2nd step I would want is to add the description which I try to add as a column in the view:

![Screenshot 2023-03-14 at 16.24.19.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/245525i54EF348CB3884027/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-03-14 at 16.24.19.png")

but I can't really add a description to it, I can only add something that's called \`Public description\` and \`Short description\` which both are those hidden "other" fields, and they don't correspond to the main description - which I don't quite get the logic.

thanks for help in advance!


Answers:
author: Rohan Swami
body: Hi [@Boleslaw Nowak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4464770) ,

To create new fields, go to a view and select **Fields** in the nav above the view (next to Sort).

![Screenshot 2023-03-20 at 5.57.17 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/246592iA6BBC944539DA6F9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-03-20 at 5.57.17 pm.png")

When you create a view - such as Impact Assessment below - you choose which fields appear in the view. These same fields will appear in the idea view on the right, fields that are not shown in the Impact Assessment view appear in the idea view on the right in the section called **Other fields**.

![Screenshot 2023-03-20 at 6.01.20 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/246593i9C8859A7D7484C04/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-03-20 at 6.01.20 pm.png")

The **Public description** and **Short description** fields can appear in a view. I think you're trying to get your users to fill out the **Overview** which is used for long form text. The Overview can not appear in views - we'll take this feedback on board.

![Screenshot 2023-03-20 at 6.06.05 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/246594iEF1804244C33940A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-03-20 at 6.06.05 pm.png")

comments: author: Boleslaw Nowak
body: thanks for your answer [@Rohan Swami](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2842658) thought there are some limitation when it comes to this field configuration.

Question though, if I would remove some views (or fields in that views) that those fields come from, would that remove them from the "Other fields" section?


author: Jan-Hendrik Spieth
body: > Question though, if I would remove some views (or fields in that views) that those fields come from, would that remove them from the "Other fields" section?

No. "Other fields" basically are all the fields that you have in your JPD project, but that are not "Fields in this view".

There is no feature to have hidden fields, or something like that, afaik.


author: Rohan Swami
body: yep [@Jan-Hendrik Spieth](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5077631) is correct!