Create and Edit Issues
Issue Area
YouTrack provides a common Issue Area for both creating and editing issues:
To create a new issue, press Alt+Ins from anywhere within YouTrack, or click New Issue in the toolbar. The Issue Area will display, letting you specify project, description, summary, priority and other issue attributes.
When you create an issue, Tag, Link and Attach buttons in the toolbar just above the Issue area let you assign a tag to the issue, link it to another issue, or attach a file or screenshot. You can also use wiki markup for special text formatting.
After you have created an issue, click Submit, or press Ctrl+Enter to submit it.
To display the Issue Area to edit an issue, highlight it in the list of issues, and press F2.
If you have to modify attributes of multiple issues, don't open them one by one — use the Command window instead.
Command Window
The Command window lets you modify attributes of an issue or a set of issues using commands similar to search queries. For example, you can:
- Assign issues to a user.
- Change type or priority level of issues.
- Associate issues with tags.
- Set dependencies between issues.
Before opening the Command window, highlight an issue in the list of issues, or select multiple issues by pressing Space or Shift+Up/Down (you can even select all found issues irrelevant of how many pages they occupy.)
Then click the Command button in the toolbar, press Ctrl+Alt+J, or start typing a command right away. In addition, commonly used commands are accessible via toolbar items.
In the Command window, you can enter one or several commands consisting of space-delimited keyword-value pairs (no colons, curly braces, or hash marks — as opposed to search queries). For example, to assign the selected issue or a set of issues to yourself, enter for me. Finished? Press Ctrl+Enter to apply your command.
Most YouTrack search keywords are applicable in the Command window, and completion works here as well.
See Examples of YouTrack Commands for more samples.
Wiki Markup
You can use special wiki markup in issue description, including links to other issues or external resources, code blocks, headers and text formatting.
A link to the wiki reference page is available from the Issue Area. The page provides a sandbox window for you to experiment with the markup and copy the resulting text into your issue. See the sandbox at our own YouTrack instance.