I want to add a bespoke list to a User Story

[Neil.Macaskill]

I want to have a bespoke list on a User Story. It's needed to allow the BAs to say that "User Story 1234 has a list of Identifiers"  -  so a User Story is composed of information originally held against those Identifiers (currently in a separate massive spreadsheet).  Not concerned about linking to the spreadsheet, just want to list the identifiers against the US. 

E.g. 

User Story ABC1234 

Text 

As a ....

I want to ....

So that ....

Success criteria : 

Result 1(per identifier 1)

Result 2 (per identifier 2) 

Then there would be the new list field against the US, holding the Identifiers : 

ID0001

ID0002

etc 

The list would need to be maintainable from within the US. 

Thanks for all/any help. 

[Kate Caldecott]

Hi  @Neil.Macaskill 

I was taking a look at this and just wanted to flag some other thoughts.

I wasn't absolutely clear if you needed to keep the spreadsheet but one thought is that you could use ProForma to display the fields (use some conditional logic to show/ hide only the relevant information eg choice lists ) and then potentially use the data connections feature.  

You could:

• convert the list of identifiers into the appropriate JSON structure
• store it in a project entity property
• create a data connection to that entity property
• link a form choice question to that data connection

Heads up I am from ProForma to be transparent.  There is a free version of ProForma Lite if you just wanted to do the list as a choice list and conditional logic on the form instead.(free up to 3 forms but you don't have a data connector with that version).

[Kit Friend]

@Neil.Macaskill I'd suggest:

- Bulk import from the CSV and put the description and results etc into the Description field

- Map the identifiers to a custom (or just the general) Labels field

[Neil.Macaskill]

@Kit Friend Thanks for your reply.  Can a Labels field be multi-element ? I need to store a list of Ids against the US.  The list length can be 2 or more.

[Kit Friend]

@Neil.Macaskill  yes you can store more than one label in a labels field. This is also why they're a bit dangerous and can get noisey :D 

Note:

- there's the default "labels" field in Jira but also...
- you can create new custom fields of a "labels" type - you might want to use this option to make clear that you're wanting people specifically to enter certain IDs