Location or address custom field?

[Alex Tejada]

Hello!

Is it possible to have an address or location custom field within Jira Work Management?

Thanks!

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Alex Tejada 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Jira doesn't natively have a custom field type specifically for addresses. They do offer custom text type fields; Single line text or Paragraph text.

[Alex Tejada]

Thanks! What about using custom fields such as dropdrowns? Can I build reporting around that?

[Trudy Claspill]

That depends on the type of reporting you want to build, and how many values you want to have available in the drop-down.

Also are you working with a Team Managed project or a Company Managed project?

[Alex Tejada]

I believe these will be team managed projects for now.

It's not a lot but I don't have the exact amount right now. This is the "flow" I am planning out

A "project" to track all projects of this particular type

Each issue within that project will be a smaller project

Each issue (which is really a customer) will have important information we want to track, maybe a total of 6-7 custom fields with up to 4 different options in each one that we want to track / report on

Is that feasible? Is this a smart approach to this type of project management?

[Trudy Claspill]

You haven't provided information about the types of reports you hope to generate. Without that information we can't provide advice on whether your plan will support the reports you want.

I asked about the number of values in the drop-down fields because there are limits to how many values you can specify for such fields. The limit is 55.

You can create 50 custom fields within a Team Managed project.

[Alex Tejada]

Sorry, it’s very basic reporting to basically tally up / count how many cards we have per custom field dropdown.

[Trudy Claspill]

You could use the native Two Dimensional Filter Statistics gadget or possibly the Pie Chart gadget on a Jira Dashboard to show the count of issues per value for one dropdown field. You would need to add multiple instances of the gadget to the dashboard - one gadget for each drop down.