Is there a filter in the result display?

Question

e.g. in the result screen of custom fields, there are so many entries I have scroll the mouse all the way down to find it, same as many other result display. Really wish there is a filter on these pages.

Thanks

Jirong

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Thing is, it's not a results page, it's an admin page.  Only a tiny handful of people should have access to it, and they should know what they're doing.

It's a lot of coding to add a feature that only a tiny number of people should ever see, ctrl-f is a perfectly good workaround, and the page should not need it - if you have a reasonable usable number of custom fields, you don't need the function.

Jirong Hu · Answer

There are other places need this filter too, e.g. the list projects page, when we have over a hundred projects. There are other tools such as BuildForge provides this type of filter on every page when result is showing. To me, it's a must.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Ah, the actual list of custom fields.

If you are struggling on that page, then there's a good reason there's no filtering - it's not a good idea to have lots of custom fields.  If you've gone over 100, it's time to take a serious look at why you've got so many.

For long lists, a filter might be handy, but I can't see a huge demand for it - ctrl-f in the browser works for most.  And for experienced Jira admins, a huge list is a bit of a red-flag that you've got a structural problem.