JIRA: Single Level Group By Report - Custom Field not available to select as statistic Type

George Kouris February 3, 2017

I created a custom field called Severity

I then went to do some reporting - wanted to show all defects and group by severity

The custom field - "Severity" isn't even available in the Statistic Type drop down for me to select

Seriously?

 

 

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 3, 2017

What type of field is it, and does it have a searcher?

George Kouris February 3, 2017

Select List (single choice) Custom Field

 

What is a searcher?

 

 I simply  tried to perform a simple filter on this new custom field of severity within my Project....whats crazy is that I see Severity as a column

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 4, 2017

A searcher is a block of code that tells JIRA how to index and search for data in the field.

A single-select will default to having a select-list searcher, and it is very unusual for an admin to ever remove a searcher, but you should check.  Go to admin -> custom fields -> your field -> edit - the searcher selected should appear under the name of the field.

If there is no searcher, this behaviour would make sense - it can't report on fields there is no reporting data for.  But if there is a searher, it becomes a bit more complex.

MilanCiti January 5, 2019

Hello Nic,

 

I have similar case, one of our custom field has searcher template : Free Text Searcher and it doesn't not appear in drop down list Statistics Type. We have JIRA tickets that have custom field populated and JIRA had been re-index. Is there any suggestion, what to do?

Thank you.

Regards,

Milan

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January 6, 2019

It won't appear for the group by report because it's nonsense for a free text field.  Each value in a free text field is expected to be different, so all you would get is a group with 1 line for every issue.

If your information is logically group-able, then you've used the wrong type of field to capture it.

MilanCiti January 8, 2019

Hi Nic,

It make sense, thank you for your confirmation.

Regards,

Milan

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