Extend Admin - adding fields to screens

[Lara Ramsay]

Hi there. We are considering creating new projects with their own issue type screen scheme/screen scheme/screens to allow project admins to make use of the ability to add/remove fields from their screens when the permission scheme has "Extend Admin" turned on.

We have a lot of old junk fields we have removed from view via Field Configs. 

In our testing, we found that a project admin looking in the drop-down of fields available to add to their screen can see ALL fields. If they select a field that has been hidden via the FC, it doesn't actually show up on their screen - it just looks like it does when they view the screen set up.

This will be annoying for our users - they will think they added a field when they didn't, and for the admins - because they will call us and ask why it's not showing up! Also, we want to phase these fields out and if the users see the old fields, they may ask to resurrect them (no).

Is there not a way to have the field list respect the Field Configuration? 

I did try updating the default field config, but that didn't work either.

Thanks!

[Earl McCutcheon · Accepted solution]

Hi Lara,

Thanks for bringing this up and that is a great find with a clear use case for a Bug, so I created the following Bug Report to track progress on a fix:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-68905

If you have any additional feedback please feel free to drop a comment on the Bug report, and add yourself as a watcher to get updates on the status of the request.

Regards,
Earl

[Lara Ramsay]

Great, thanks very much Earl, I'll watch it  - and I voted for it :)