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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Your custom "Contributor" type attribute might have a special value set definition.
For exmaple, Role-based user lists in https://jazz.net/library/article/537 |
Ralph Schoon (63.4k●3●36●46)
| answered Nov 06 '15, 5:51 a.m.
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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
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Pravin Patil
commented Nov 06 '15, 3:33 p.m.
Is there any limit on number of users that the contributor list shows? 1
Kevin Ramer
commented Nov 06 '15, 3:58 p.m.
I've seen 200-250 in certain contexts [ more from the admin side of things ]
Donald Nong
commented Nov 08 '15, 8:22 p.m.
Indeed, when searching the contributors, the query is similar to
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