The general settings section allows you to set some basic options for the custom field.
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For more information about settings data sources see Data Source Configuration.
Autosearch
What does this do?Autosearch triggers the search to occur automatically as soon as the user opens the Search dialog using the values that are already on the field.
Refresh type
The Advanced Database Row Field has the option to refresh the data from the source database. This means that if the data is updated in the database it can also be changed in Jira, if that is the desired behavior. Or, it can be set to never update the data in Jira once the options are established from the database. The available options are:
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Set - Users are allowed to set a value for the field in Jira. – is this right? It does not seem right…
Insert - User can enter a new value in Jira nd the data will be added into the connected database table.
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DYNAMIC - A script can be used to determine if specific permissions are given. The scripts can take a variety of inputs from issue or Jira environment so the script can accommodate many special conditions. See Writing Security Scripts for more information.