Is it possible to add values to a "select/multi select" custom field list as you type them ?

[Thomas Corriol]

Hi,

I am wondering if some plugin / AJS guru out there can help. :)

I have a project where I have created a "development" issue type.

In this "development" issue type, I want to have a multi-select custom field named "Impacted Objects".

The number of possible impacted objects is huge (think source code file names here, that cannot be versionned, like in Perforce, because the system is antiquated, no plug-in to Perforce possible, mainframe type stuff, etc...), but most of them are rarely changed anymore (has been in maintenant for years). So I don't want to configure a list with millions of entries that will rarely be used.

What I would like is people to be able to enter text like "abcd.lr" or "efgh.rtn", and if the entry already exist in the multi-select list, then it should propose it, if not, it should just accept a new entry and add it to the future possibility of the multi-select list.

Basically, I would like this feature here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-35211

But I am wondering if that can't be done through AJS.

I have found the part that auto-complete your existing entries here:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/84612/how-to-add-auto-complete-rendere-to-any-custom-field

And I have found examples about how to populate the list with external values:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/23282/populate-multi-select-field-of-an-issue-with-javascript-jquery

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21273/how-can-i-populate-a-multi-select-custom-field-with-values-from-an-external-source

but the later doesn't really fit my bill.

Can someone help ?

Thanks and regards,

Thomas

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

No. Multi-select list options are set by the administrators.

You'd need to write a new field to do this. Or do it the slightly easier way and simply use a labels field - not quite a drop down, but has auto-suggest and let-user-add-random-value to it.

[Thomas Corriol]

Actually, it certainly is probably good enough for the moment. Thanks a lot Nic !