Can we have a list type attribute in Jira Assets?

[joel_magnuson_viasat_com]

I would like to request a list type in Jira Assets.

Currently if we want to query on a word in a TextArea, the user would have to regular expressions. This isn't as common knowledge as a list (such as the tags in this post type). It would change the query from regex to "myitem" in List.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @joel_magnuson_viasat_com 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

In Assets when you add an attribute with the Type = Default then you can set the Type Value = Select. This creates an attribute for which you can create a list of values from which the user can select. You can set the Cardinality of the attribute to determine the minimum and maximum number of values that can be selected.

Is that what you need?

If not can you provide an example of what you need.

[joel_magnuson_viasat_com]

No, that's not what I want. I want an arbitrary list, exactly like the tags attribute in this forum. I want people to arbitrarily add items to the list. To query on the list items they would just do

AND aribitraryListItemAttribute in ("myListItem1","myListItem2")

Currently the only available attribute is a string, and to query a substring within a string we would have to use

AND issueFunction in issueFieldMatch("project = MyProjectName", arbitratryStringAttribute, ".*<regex pattern for my word>.*")

[Trudy Claspill]

Thank you for the clarification.

What you describe sounds like the Labels field type used in issues.

I don't see a change request for that in the public backlog, but I have not done a thorough search.

https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Given that this is a user community and not the best method to provide feedback to Atlassian, have you raised this requests with your Jira administrators so that they can open a support case directly with Atlassian to ask about such a change request? 

[joel_magnuson_viasat_com]

I have not done that. Thank you for letting me know that is the best (although quite restricted) way to give product feedback. 

[Trudy Claspill]

You can also use the Feedback option within the Jira product, under the Help menu.

You won't immediately get any sort of support ticket number when that method is used. That is the benefit of having your admins contact Atlassian Support directly.