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3. Add new custom field "Supervisor" of type "Team User Picker (Vacation Manager)"  to "VACMAN Field Configuration". 

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a. Click Issues in JIRA administration section 
b. Go to Custom fields 
c. Click Add Custom Field 


d. Select Advanced tab and choose Team User Picker (Vacation Manager):


e. Click Next, enter name Supervisor (you can add some description for a reference) and accept using Create button:


f. On next screen check Create/Edit/View screens used by Vacation Manager (by default: VACMAN Screen CreateVACMAN Screen EditVACMAN Screen View)

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g. Click Update to save changes


h. Navigate back to Field Configurations (1), click Configure (2) (for Vacation Manager project):


i. Make supervisor field created in step "e" a required field 
j. Switch old supervisor field to optional (we will remove this field later) 

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4. Update configuration with created "Supervisor" field.

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a. In Vacation Manager configuration (1) click Edit fields (2):


b. Select newly created Supervisor field (1). Usually newly created Supervisor field has a higher ID number (2):

c. Select YES in Migrate data option
d. Click Save button to save configuration and move data in Vacation Documents from old to new Supervisor field

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If you have successfully migrated data you can delete fields Supervisor and Details:

a. Now you can delete old Supervisor and Details fields (as those are no longer used). Navigate to Custom fields and delete Supervisor (1) and Details fields (2):

(info) To easily identify the obsolete "Supervisor" field, you may refer to the field's ID (3) displayed when hovering mouse cursor over any option of a field's menu.


b. Some cosmetics: Navigate to Issues → Screens → find VACMAN Screen Create and click on configure - to change the order of the fields (by default fields are ordered by ID's), move Supervisor field up to its default place, below Security Level. Exemplary outcome is presented below:


c. Do the same actions for View and Edit screens


(info) If for some reasons you would like to keep fields Supervisor and Details, you can remove them from Vacation Manager screens without deleting those fields.:

a. Search for Details field on VACMAN Field Configuration and click on its Screens operation
b. Uncheck Create/Edit screens used by Vacation Manager (by default: VACMAN Screen Create, VACMAN Screen Edit). You can also uncheck View screen if you made migrations from 1st step.
c. Click Update to save changes
d. Search for Supervisor field on VACMAN Field Configuration and click on its Screens operation
e. Uncheck Create/Edit/View screens used by Vacation Manager (by default: VACMAN Screen Create, VACMAN Screen Edit) + view
f. Click Update to save changes

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