Can I use a custom field twice on a form

Steven Lees-Smith

Hi there,

I am building some forms in JSM and have multiple needs to use the same custom fields on a form.

For example, Studio Location is a drop down (single choice) custom field and on forms I can use it twice for selections.  I have it twice on our travel ticket as the Leaving From Studio and Travelling To Studio.  I can't link it twice as the custom Jira field to be able to leverage the values stored on the custom field, do I need to create multiple of the same custom field to be able to show the same values in different drop downs.

This will be a head for some of the HR forms when there are referring to Current and New Production.

Thanks.

Dirk Ronsmans

Hey @Steven Lees-Smith ,

Just a little question, are you using a Request Type or already building the form in the new Forms (old Proforma) format?

On a regular JSM Request Type you can indeed only use a custom field once. On the backend it is linked to a specific field there too so you cannot link a "placeholder field" twice to the same field on the backend field.

This would also mean that if you change 1 of the 2 fields on your form it would overwrite the field on the actual issue. 

Hence, yes you'll have to define 2 custom fields with most likely the same data behind it as you already mentioned with the Leaving from and Going to studio fields. If this was a single field this would not work on the backend issue screen itself as both fields would occupy the same field.