Is a Proforma multi-select drop down list possible now or coming soon?

[Paul Romanus]

ProForma provides a single select drop down Iist, is a Proforma multi-select drop down list possible now or coming soon?

[Kate Caldecott · Accepted solution]

Hi John and Paul

I am pleased to say that this feature is coming.  We are just in the final review phase for the introduction of the new multi select dropdown feature.  This feature means that you will be able to select multiple choices in a dropdown field.

We got quite a bit of feedback about needing to make working with long choice lists easier so this field type should make the form design cleaner.

Stay posted for the release and I will update again here when it is live for easy reference.

[Paul Romanus]

Thanks for your reply Kate, sounds like good news! Can you confirm the new multi-select field would map to a single jira custom field similar to John's solution above to allow for JQL querying? Tbh, it would be most preferable for all ProForma fields to be queryable via JQL - but not requiring a mapping to Custom fields .. but suspect you already know that :) Thanks again - and pleas pass my thanks to the rest of the ProForma team for creating this add-on.

[Kate Caldecott]

Ha, yes I do.

Thanks I will - they will appreciate that Paul. 

Take care.

[Kate Caldecott]

@John Funk  @Paul Romanus  - I just wanted to let you know that the multi select drop down feature has now been released in ProForma - v.8.1.16 (DC - for data center version).

I hope this assists with the form design.

Many thanks.

[Paul Romanus]

Hi, thanks for the heads up John, typically, our end of sprint was due so had to go with the single select option - I'd just finished adding 50+ single select lists and mapping them to discrete custom fields - so much fun in one day! - when past midnight, I saw the update! After a few thuds of my head on the desk, recovered, and spent the next day duplicating the form with the new multiselects .. but all good .. they appear to be working well .. there's a hopefully minor display issue whereby when selecting a value the dropdown section of the control/widget it underlays controls below, hiding the list of values - I'll raise a ticket in time .. thanks very much again, and also to ThinkTilt for their efforts and time. 

[Kate Caldecott]

Ouch but good to hear that it is working well. 

I work with ProForma so I have raised a ticket with our support team re the minor display issue.  If you would like to be copied in, please just email me at katec@thinktilt.com.    Thanks for the heads up.

[John Funk]

Hi Paul,

No, ProForma does not currently support multi-select drop down lists. But they do support Checklist fields where you can select multiple options. 

Not sure on their Roadmap for the multi-select. @andrewd  - any thoughts?  :-)

[Paul Romanus]

Thanks again John for your time and reply, we would struggle to use checklists as the number of options make the vertical layout too long - a horizontal or scrolling checkbox layout may also suffice - or a way to override the css code to give us that control? all thoughts/advice gratefully received 

[John Funk]

Yeah, I had/have the same need. What I did in part was assign items in the list to a handful of categories. Then I only displayed the checkboxes for the items associated with that category. 

In order to do all of that I had to create a custom field in Jira for each category and put the list of values in that new custom field. 

[andrewd]

I concur with the response provided by Kate Caldecott. Nothing further to add.