How to fully render assignee drop-down list in JIRA

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Symptoms

Starting from JIRA 5.0 the Assignee drop down list has been enhanced to show only "Suggested users initially" and only after typing in at least 1 character the valid Assignees are shown matching that character. 

Cause

JIRA changed introduced this feature in order to improve load-time performance for instances with a large amount of users valid for the Assignee field for the Project.

Resolution

Enabling this option at Large instance with a lot of users will lead to extremely slow rendering Assignee drop-down list.

 

In order to revert to the original drop down for the Assignee field please follow the below steps:

  1. Open the file jira-features.properties under JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes in a text editor

  2. Modify the value of this parameter to false for the parameter frother.assignee.field and the line will look similar as given below:

    frother.assignee.field=false
  3. Restart JIRA

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Last modified on Feb 26, 2016

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