How to add AutoComplete/Search function into a Custom Field <Select List (multiple choices)>?

Jeff Boon

I am currently using JIRA Cloud, and I understand that this can be achieved in JIRA Server using javascripts.

I am wondering is there any other way for JIRA Cloud users to have a search/autocomplete feature for a custom field that have multiple selections? 

Imagine having 100 values in a multiple choice custom field with only wildcard search using keyboard is a bit troublesome no?

Andy Heinzer

Hi Jeff,

I understand that you have a multi select custom field and want to be able to have an auto complete option for users that might start to type out a potential value in that field.

We are tracking this over in JRACLOUD-23013.  While this is a long standing feature request, I was looking into this and found that in some cases this is already in play in Jira Cloud today.

If your Jira Cloud site is already using the new issue view, this appears to be already be possible.  Although I found that if I fell back to the old issue view temporarily, that when looking at the same issue this it was not possible to type in any value to try to autocomplete that field in the old view. 

I found that I was able to create a multi-select type custom field in both company managed and team managed projects (field type is called Dropdown in team managed).  In the new issue view I found this already appears possible.  However I did not test will 100 possible values to the field itself, so perhaps there is something else in play here specific to your environment or this specific field type.

I would be interested to learn more here so that we can understand why this might not be working the way you want here in your environment.  Are you using the new issue view?

Andy