Cascading select field: dashboard statistic

Question

Hello,

I just created a custom field cascading type. It works well for our purpose, only the dashboard gadget does not work the way I need. I want to show the issue statisic (or for example a pie chart) listing only the parent values. In the dashboard however, this is not possible, but the whole cascading value is shown.

Eg: Europe - Germany, Europe - France, Africa - Southafrica etc. I would need the piechart showing Europe, Asia, Africa, America, -> so only the first values.

Ist this somehow possible?

Are you planning to change that?

Thanks,

Claudia

Prateek Yadav · Answer

Not exactly trying to break/ignore one half. I can relate to the poster here. I have to group all the issues based on different parent options, as in my case they denote different agile teams. So, I want to understand how many open issues are there in each team and prioritise accordingly. In total, there are more than 50 child options across team and some are duplicate, so grouping based on child is not meaningful here. Now, I understand that first question would be that categorisation of teams based on this custom field is not a good idea at the first place, but I have to do it due to some other challenges. Nonetheless, need of grouping still persists for these field types as dashboard becomes too cluttered otherwise.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Um, it does.  The problem in the question is that the poster is trying to break it - they've asked to ignore one half of the data pair, which, as you say, means you can't tell Melbourne from Melbourne.

Prateek Yadav · Answer

Another use case is, you might have duplicate value for child option for different parent options. For e.g., In a Country/City mapping, Melbourne is in Australia as well as USA. So, you cannot just rely on child option. But sticking to the question, parent value becomes necessary to group the tickets between teams/category or when count of child option is too high/non-unique.