Limiting the options in a field in the filter screen

Question

Is there a way to reduce the number of options in a field in a filter. We have clients with access to 1 project but when they use the filter, if they leave the Projects filter set to All, they see ALL possible option values in all available fields. This is a serious data security issue in 2 ways:

1. ALL people fields will show ALL users (plus part of their email address), including other client users that do not belong to their project;

2. ALL custom fields will show ALL possible values, including a Client Name field we have - this allows every client of ours to see the full list of all other clients that we are working with.

Thanks.

Radek Dostál · Accepted Answer

That's how it's built, and it cannot be changed. This is something for Atlassian to address and I think there are some requests for this on https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql= but might be tough to filter it out with a good query.

The way the JQL query is implemented doesn't really leave much of a room for this right - because you write the whole thing, in any order you want. It would need to be completely changed to facilitate such a thing.