User cannot see populated drop down list

[Chris Boscawen]

When a user/customer attempts to create a ticket in Jira Service desk Cloud, we have a dropdown field for them to select their "manager". This drop down customer field is the customer field "user pricker (single user)".

Myself as the IT director and my service desk staff can see the drop down list employeers and can search for users.

All other staff not on my team cannot use this picker. its remains blank and does not populate the list or allow them to search for users.

Do I need to change a permission for this to work? or is there a general setting for all Service Desk customers to use this? 

Note that all employees have active Jira licenses. But only my IT team has the service management license

[Angélica Luz · Accepted solution]

Hello @Chris Boscawen,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

When customers can’t browse users or customers on user picker custom fields on the customer portal, it means that they don’t have permission for such action.

With this said, please, go to Project settings > Customer permissions (company-managed) or Project settings > Channels > Customer permissions (team-managed) and change the Customer sharing permission to Customers can search for other customers within their project or organizations.

Please, take your time to test and let us know how it goes.

Kind regards,
Angélica

[Chris Boscawen]

This worked! Thank you for the help and explanation of how this setting works.

[TD]

Hello @Angélica Luz , I am using Jira Service Management and the suggested solution is not an option when I go to Customer Permissions. Is there a different setting to change for the same issue within Jira Service Management (Data Center)?

[Hans Stokman]

I was experiencing the same problems in Jira Service Management, but below setting resolved it:

[Juniper]

Hiya internet folk & folklets,

For those who stumbled upon this and want to know where to find the option:

1. Go to the Project Settings of the service project in question.

2. Access > Customer Permissions

3. Then select the option specified above, Customers can search for other customers within their project or organizations. <3

[Lucas Powell]

Worked for me.