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Using the new custom fields plugin in Fogbugz 8.3.42 I'm able to configure custom fields so that they show up per category or project. This is great!

However, this excellent functionality seems to be disabled for dropdown and person fields. Is this intentional?

If so, is this something that will also be configurable for these data types in a future version of the plugin or Fogbugz?

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It turns out custom fields of type Dropdown and Person can be constrained to a specific project. See this post for instructions: fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/7036/… – Greg Saven♦ Feb 14 2011 at 18:11
@greg-saven Thanks for the tip! Although I'd rather wait until it is "officially supported" just in case. – Roman Feb 15 2011 at 20:46

closed as no longer relevant by adambox♦♦ Apr 27 2011 at 17:52

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Update: they can be set per-project now.

There were some complications with hiding dropdowns, so in the interest of at least having predictable behavior for the parts that work, we disabled it. We are still working on the problem. If we come up with something better, we'll ship that, and if not, we'll probably just enable it.

The issue is that a hidden field remains visible if it has a value (you set it in one project, then switch projects). We decided that was the best thing to do. The complication is that dropdowns always have values, so they would always be shown. The ability to have a non-value option for dropdowns is another outstanding request, we just weren't able to solve it in time for this release.

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Thanks for the explanation. The ability to have non-values for dropdowns would indeed be welcome. Although for our purposes it would suffice if it was possible for the dropdowns to remain hidden (regardless of whether they have a value or not) in the categories/projects where they are not used. Maybe this could be an option per field? "Show field in all categories/projects if it has a value" – Roman Feb 3 2011 at 19:38
That's a possibility. We're trying to avoid presenting the user with option overload, but sometimes that's the way things have to be. – Ted♦ Feb 3 2011 at 20:49
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 It looks like you can put "--" in a drop-down field to get no value... – adambox♦ Feb 7 2011 at 14:37
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Upvote this feature: would love the ability to add a drop down custom field to a specific project only (in my case, to contain a t-shirt sizing estimate ... any sense of timing for any changes to the feature? Thanks!

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The feature is already available. It's a bit of a kludge, but it can be done. See this post: fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/7036/… – Greg Saven♦ Feb 14 2011 at 18:20

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