Is there any way to import or add options of a select list?

[Sai Gangadhar]

I have to add nearly 100 options to the Custom field of type select list(single). Adding manually is a big and boring task. Is there any way to import the options? by using any rest API calls or anything else.

[Fazila Ashraf · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sai Gangadhar 

Do you have scriptrunner? 

If so, adding options with https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/5.5.2/jira/builtin-scripts.html#_bulk_import_custom_field_values is very simple

[Prince Nyeche]

Hi @Sai Gangadhar 

Easiest way to do this is via the CSV Importer from Jira's system settings. As long as you have a column of the issue key and the custom values in another column sorted correctly to the issue keys and a summary column (this you can leave blank) and map them to their appropriate fields name during the import, you can do the import. Otherwise using REST API getting the value from a csv file as well works too.