Question

I've created a "person" custom field, and would like to filter out cases where that field has been assigned value. Can this be done?

Case FC1912833

Answer 1

I don't know if any of the field types in Custom Fields support using a wildcard for "any value", but I know the number type doesn't. I recently wrote a plugin which uses the BugField library (which does much of the work in Custom Fields) and had to override the search axis method to add the ability to find "*".

We have a case open to consider adding this to Custom Fields for a future release. Please up-vote this question (not this answer) to show your support for adding this feature.

Answer 2

Certain internal fields do seem to work although custom fields are another story. For example, let's say you wanted to filter out cases where release notes had been assigned a value -- the following works just fine:

-releasenotes:*

However, using the same technique on our custom field doesn't work for filtering records out (it does work for showing the records though).

Answer 3

For the internal version field, -version:"*" works. I'm not sure whether this works with the Custom Fields plugin, as we don't use it.