How does "Contributor" field type work?
I have a "Person Responsible" field which is of "Contributor" type.
A few people have noticed that the user dropdowns do not display all people who can be selected. However they do show up if you run a search. Is there some hierarchy or filter at work here, or is there a maximum number of values that can be displayed in a user-list/dropdown?
Please let me know.
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As far as I know, the contributor selection will initially pick up users that have a close relationship to the work item e.g. by being in the team. I don't know the details, but that is what I have seen in the past. The reason why it does not show all users initially is obvious, if there are several hundreds of users, it would
- Take a lot of time to retrieve and show them all
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Make it very hard to find users in the long list
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Is there any limit on number of users that the contributor list shows?
I've seen 200-250 in certain contexts [ more from the admin side of things ]
If you get the search dialog and click the "Show All" it will show 1st 250.
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Indeed, when searching the contributors, the query is similar to
/ccm/service/com.ibm.team.repository.service.internal.IAdminRestService/contributors?hideArchivedUsers=true&hideAdminGuest=true&hideUnassigned=true&pageSize=250&searchTerm=%25d%25&sortBy=name&pageNum=0
I believe the page size of 250 is hard coded as I cannot find anywhere the change it in the Advanced Properties page.