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Is there an (easy) way to have a dropdown custom field dynamically populate with users?

Elliott Lemberger

So, I've added a custom field to tickets on my Jira Design board called "Designer." Idea is I want to have a Designer dedicated to a ticket/feature even as the assignee changes.

Right now, I just manually populated the list of options in the dropdown with all the designers on my team. Just wondering if there's any way to have it dynamically populate a list of Jira users, say with a specific role (ie: Designer).

Thanks!

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

If you use a standard "user picker" custom field, you can tell it to list users from a group or role in the project. I'd probably set up a "designer" role to use for it!

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carolyn french

Hi Elliott,

Are you on Cloud or Server? Screenshot looks like Cloud, but just wanted to make sure.

I haven't personally used this add-on, but it's free, so maybe you'd be interested to give it a try (available for Server). Seems to solve the particular problem you have.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/5063/issue-alternative-assignee?hosting=server&tab=overview

Carolyn

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

If you use a standard "user picker" custom field, you can tell it to list users from a group or role in the project. I'd probably set up a "designer" role to use for it!

Elliott Lemberger

Thanks so much for the suggestion. I did exactly what you suggested, and I'm half way there...

I'm having a hard time with getting the field to auto-fill. Ideally, I click into the field and the drop down shows the 8 users in the group I've filtered it to. But there are no auto-suggestions. After typing in the field the auto-suggestions are inconsistent. If I type one team member's entire name, he then shows up as an auto-suggestion. If I type another member's name, they don't show up at all. Any ideas here?

Thanks!

Elliott Lemberger

For example. Again in some cases I can type and entire name, and I still get nothing...

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Do you have the "global" permission for "browse users"?

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