Add to Category drop down list

[Ernie Zahn]

How do you add additional values to the Category drop down list on create issue screen.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

If you are seeing "category" on the create issue screens, then it is a custom field that one of your administrators has added to your system.

To get more options into the list, get your admins to go to Admin -> Issues -> Custom fields -> <Category field> configure, where they will be able to amend the list of options.

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Ernie Zahn welcome to the Atlassian community.

As far as I knew you can't add new status to the already available category list in the Jira Cloud version. If considering at server level, then this documentation steps will come handy.

[Ernie Zahn]

I don't want to add new statuses, I want to add new Categories.

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Ernie Zahn thank you for clarifying the query. Let's wait to hear from other members.

[Ernie Zahn]

There is a link to add new project categories, but all it does is let you name a new group of project categories and does not let you add items to the list.  I'm not really sure what this page is doing.

[Jens Patel]

For what it's worth after two years =) You can add 'categories' by going to "List view" > column 'category' typ in the value that you want and add.