How to increase number of Recent Projects in JIRA?

[Tayyab Bashir]

How can I increase the number of recent projects in JIRA from 5 to 10. 

I know it's Atlassian is not providing that feature right now But how can I achieve it? Capture.PNG

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[Boris Georgiev [Botron]]

You can't as this is hardcoded to 5 in the class that provides the menu items for the top navigation bar.

[Tayyab Bashir]

Can I create a plugin and do it with that? 
Like I could add a web-section and keep track of recent projects (somehow).

would this direction be viable or not?  

[Boris Georgiev [Botron]]

Yes you can implement your own dropdown showing the list of recent projects. Check these for guide/samples

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11970940

https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started/plugin-modules/web-item-plugin-module

The problem is that you'll then have two drop-down menus showing a list of projects and the only way you can hide the original menu provided by JIRA might be a bit hacky - you need to create a css file which is included globally on all pages which sets the "display" of the original menu to "none".

[Tayyab Bashir]

Okay, thanks for you help. I'll look into this 

[Mark Haller]

I want a solution to this too!   Either 10 items would be great, or a quick type-ahead like on the JQL simple search builder