Is there a way to configure different colors for values in a Select List custom field?

[Bianca Sarmiento]

I have a Select List (single choice) custom field that acts an indicator for RAG Status. I would like to configure the choices to be different colors. Is there a way to do this in Jira Software Cloud?

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] · Accepted solution]

Can you add emojis as a select list value on Jira Cloud? https://getemoji.com/

Something like...

• 🟩 OK
• 🟨 Warning
• 🟥 Danger

UPDATE:

Yes, you can:

How?

1.-  Look for the desired emoji at https://getemoji.com/
2.-  Copy & paste as it was regular text.

Best regards, enjoy the trick!

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Yes, you can:

<3

[Bianca Sarmiento]

Hi Jack - It's unclear to me how you were able to get the color boxes below. Can you help to further clarify. 

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Look for the desired emoji at https://getemoji.com/, then copy & paste as it was regular text.

Regards

[Bianca Sarmiento]

Thanks, this worked!

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Enjoy the trick <3

[E7 Ana Galofre Smith]

This is a nifty trick thanks so much!

[Andrew Robinson]

This is brilliant, thank you @Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] 

[James Webber]

@Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] this is awesome - using it all the time - you rock!

[Guy Anela]

Brilliant! ...and so simple.  Thanks Jack!

[Aditi Krishnaprakash]

This is *brilliant*! :) 

[Bob Bandsuh]

For whatever reason this is not working for me. Has something changed?

[Monica Morris]

Brilliant, works perfectly - thank you @Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] !

[IOANNIS]

Hello. Except from these emoji, where can I find extra? I am mainly interested in coloured quads. The colours in existing ones are very limited. 

thank you very much

[Alex Hall]

Has anyone gotten this to work for custom Emojis?

[Piotr Janik]

Do you mean emojis not included in Unicode?

[Alex Hall]

Yes. I'm by no means an expert on Emojis but I find way more value in custom Emojis than the stock ones.

But it seems that support via Unicode is the big difference between custom and non-custom ones, and the ability for various computing systems requiring Unicode support.

[Sriharsha]

This will break all the Filters, Queries since the value will now have to be modified

[SM Jira Support Engineer]

Is there a way to add colored text as a field option? When you view form fields on issue view in Jira Service Management, the text is really tough to ready because it is greyed out and very dim - Is there a way to get around that?

[Łukasz Przybyłowicz]

Ok, but how you search for it via jql?

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Haven't tried myself but it should be something like:

"Your Field Name" ~ "🟩"

...or... if you added some text apart from the colour

"Your Field Name" ~ "option text"

[Monika Rani]

It's really Awesome, Thanks for Sharing.

[Deleted user]

That was great, thank you for that. 

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Anytime

[Rajiv Ranjan]

@Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] This is brilliant, thank you!!

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

You are welcome!

[David Berkowitz]

This is so much simpler than trying to use any of the "traffic lights" plug-ins. Solved a long-running pain point for my teams. Thank you so much for sharing !

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Work smarter not harder :)

[Candace Chi-Tsunozaki]

So cool, thank you Jack!

[Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]]

Anytime!