How to create % custom field in Jira?

Question

Hello All,

Any idea on how to create a number custom filed with %.

For Example - Custom field should accept only numbers with a percentage symbol(100%). It shouldn't allow the user to create the custom field with string.

Any help would be appreciated??

Thanks,

Manikanta.

LarryBrock · Answer

Hello @Bunty!

Great news, Nic suggested writing your own add-on but that's not necessary.  Turbo Kit for Jira has a "Regex Validated Single Line Text Field" custom field so you can enforce just about any kind of input desired, including a percentage.  You can find information about TK4J in the Atlassian marketplace.

(Full disclosure:  I work for the company that wrote TK4J, Praecipio Consulting.)

Hope this helps,
~~Larry Brock

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

You will need to write an add-on to provide this if you want to do it properly.

Otherwise, you could use a text field and then wrap some "Behaviours" around it to validate the entry is good.  But Behaviours can't stop people getting it wrong in several places, so you'd also need a listener to catch changes to the field, validate them and then re-edit the issue to undo them (which will annoy your users)

However, there's a reason a % field is not built into Jira - it's very rare that you actually want to enter it.  Almost every use case is that the % should be calculated from something else.  This is where Scriptrunner scripted fields would kick in - you'd write the calculation in there and they'll display the %.