how can I use autocomplete in a custom field of type multi select?

[Karla Cavalcanti]

Hi guys,
a help please

We need to use autocomplete in a custom field of type multi select.

We meet one solution in this link:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-enable-autocomplete-renderer-for-multi-select-custom-field-in-jira-754978239.html\\
but it doesn`t work. We applyed the code and did the reindex but nothing happens with the custom field in the screens.

My JIRA is version 7.3.7

Could you help me, please.

Is there any solution for it?

Regards

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi Karla,

I followed the steps in that KB, and when I did this I found that this field renderer was changed for me when editing the field. I also found that when not editing the issue, I could still click on that field in my instance and have this field then behave like the labels field does there as well.  In my instances this went from a typical multi-option select field, into a field that looks more like the labels field in Jira.

My instance was Jira 7.7.0.  However I do not understand why your version would be unable to do this yet.  Also I did not have to reindex to make this work.  I just had to enter this into the field's description, save it, and then reload the browser page that contained issues with this field to be able to alter the way this looked.

Could you let me know what values you got back from the SQL command of

SELECT id FROM customfield WHERE cfname = '<cf-name>';


when you replace <cf-name> with the name of the custom field you're modifying.

And then what exactly was the specific script you used in your instance in order to alter this?