How do I change the Issue Type field to a dropdown?

[Danny Valentine]

Instead of having to Move an issue, it would be great to have the user change an Issue Type from a dropdown. I know this is possible because it has been set up in a different project, however the administrator of that project has now left the company, and I can't seem how to find how to change this behavior on Google or Atlassian's forums.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

The Issue Type field turns to a dropdown automatically, if there are at least two issue types for your project, which share the same configuration. As far as I remember it must be the same workflow.

[Danny Valentine]

I'll take a look tomorrow when I'm in the office. My project has four issue types, but I'm not sure if they share workflows.

Thanks for the reply!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The issue types must have the same field configuration and workflow.

Then you can put the "issue type" field on the edit screen to allow drop-down changes.