How to configure user picker custom field in Jira to display a single default user
Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
This KB describes the steps to setup the user picker field such that the field should exclusively display only one default user value, with no additional user suggestions presented.
Environment
Jira Cloud
Solution
Create a custom field with the type "User Picker".
Assign a default value within the context of this field.
Proceed to the user filtering section, enable either group or project filtering, and then include a group that only contains user(s) who are added to the default value list
After taking this action, notice that the user filtering will display users of that group only
As for the custom field on issues, only the default value(s) will be visible and no other values can be accessed or will be displayed.
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