select lists in fields - jira server

[Jo Steele]

We are moving from Atlassian Cloud to an internally hosted Jira Server instance. In our requests we have a field for cost centres to be inserted. To date it is a manual process using a single line text input field.

We have issues with the incorrect info inserted and I'd like users to be able to select a cost centre from a defined list instead. We have around 1,100 cost centres in use.

Has anyone done this?

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

You would need to create a new single select field and then move all values from the old field to the new one. You would need to write a custom solution to move these values.

If you want a free solution, then you could use the Jira Rest Api, to accomplish this task.

[Jo Steele]

are there performance issues with having that much data in the list? my IT team who manage the server instance are pushing back

[Alexey Matveev]

I would say that a select list with 1000 options seems meaningless. Maybe better make a cascading select.

I have not heard about performance problems though 1000 options will be loaded each time to the page of the user and the user resources will play the main part, if it will be fast or not.

[Jo Steele]

they are saying it will. would be good to know if anyone has found another solution perhaps with hosting the data outside of jira