select lists in fields - jira server

Question

We are moving from Atlassian Cloud to an internally hosted Jira Server instance. In our requests we have a field for cost centres to be inserted. To date it is a manual process using a single line text input field.

We have issues with the incorrect info inserted and I'd like users to be able to select a cost centre from a defined list instead. We have around 1,100 cost centres in use.

Has anyone done this?

Jo Steele · Answer

they are saying it will. would be good to know if anyone has found another solution perhaps with hosting the data outside of jira

Alexey Matveev · Answer

I would say that a select list with 1000 options seems meaningless. Maybe better make a cascading select.

I have not heard about performance problems though 1000 options will be loaded each time to the page of the user and the user resources will play the main part, if it will be fast or not.

Jo Steele · Answer

are there performance issues with having that much data in the list? my IT team who manage the server instance are pushing back