New custom field with same options as another custom field

Question

We have a custom field for Conference but want to track multiple conferences that it is presented at and the year.

How can we maintain Conference 1, Conference 2, Conference 3 etc fields all having the same options - this is single select as there are additional fields that pertain to each conference hence these need to be single select separate fields vs a multi select.

Daniel Ebers · Answer

Do I understand you correctly you have now three Cascading fields holding values?

Could you please confirm on the structure? At the moment the implementation is not fully clear to me.

Is it:
Conference 1:
with values for parent
London
Paris
Tokio
and values for child each
Sales pitch
Advertisement
general visit

While Conference 2:
with values for parent
Amsterdam
New York
Neapel
and values for child each
Demo
Supervision
Customer Care

Could you also confirm please that the values are "set" - or managed manually by a Jira admin as you need it (remove, add) or does your requirement include adding/removing them from list (for example adding Paris to Conference 2 parent values list)?

I seem to understand you could want to pick Amsterdam by script from Conference 2 field in case in Conference 1 field in parent also occurs Amsterdam. But this implementation would at first sight not make much sense to me - so happy for any clarification.

Thanks,
Daniel

Katherine Lord_p0d532 · Answer

We have tried cascading fields and that is now working well for imports and exports and reporting.

What we need is:

Conference 1 field (values to select A,B, C, D)

Conference 2 field (same values as Conference 1 but don't want to support manually updating multiple fields - maybe a scripted field pulling the values from Conference 1 but not sure how to do this)

Conference 3 field (same values as Conference 1 but don't want to support manually updating multiple fields - maybe a scripted field pulling the values from Conference 1 but not sure how to do this)

Using an add-on is ok but not sure which one.

Jack Brickey · Answer

Hi Katherine, welcome to the Community. Let's discuss your needs a bit more before I suggest a solution.

Can I assume that you are using Jira to track tasks associated w/ Conferences here? Can you explain your use case a bit more? How do you use this field and what values go into it? TBH, I don't think you will want to have multiple fields as that seems messy to me. Maybe a cascading select field w/ field 1 being the conference name and field to being the list of current values in your single select. Or maybe you could consider using Components for Conferences and then leverage your current Conference single select. Or maybe you would create a second custom field. Again, I need to better understand your use case.