Custom field columns not showing up in filter columns...

[Eric Blair]

In Jira, I have set up some filters and configured the columns to show for those filters, some of which are custom fields which are associated with the project and the issue types. When I run the filters not all the columns show, specifically some of the custom field columns, yet other ones do.

Am I issing something?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

The custom fields will show up only if the context selected for the search has it. For example, if the custom field is restricted to a project or issuetype and the search doesn't specify that, the field won't show up.

Try modifying your filter to include projects and issuetypes for which the field is available and see if it is visible after you do that!

[Eric Blair]

Thanks for your reply. As I mentioned above, the CF's are associated already with the project and issues types I am using. I have checked this.

Thanks!

[Brian Rafferty]

I wrestled with this for a couple days, and found this embarrassingly quick fix. If I edited the filter and added:

Project = "yourprojectIDhere" and

to the beginning of the JQL query, my custom fields appeared and behaved just as I arranged them in the filter's column order. Without the Project qualifier, no custom fields appear--even though there's only one project in the instance.

Hope that helps!

[MinC]

Possible different custom fields have different context. For example, custom field A only sets to appear for issue type 'Bug' and custom field B sets to appear for issue type 'Task'. If you choose the criteria for issue type 'Bug', the search result will ignore the custom field B.

Another possible reason is did you add the custom field to be displayed as one of the columns in Issue Navigator result? You can refer to this documentation on how to configure the default Issue Navigator: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+the+Default+Issue+Navigator

Also, as mentioned in the KB (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Custom+Field+Column+not+Visible+in+Issue+Navigator), is it possible some of your custom fields does not contain any values?

[Eric Blair]

I ended up setting the fields to use a Global context and now they show up. This is inconvenient, but it'll do for now.

[Janardhan]

Hello there,

But in our system we created custom fileds for individual project so, here i can't give global context so, can you please show me some alternative way......?

Thanks in advance.