📣 Feature improvement (for space admin!) - Global fields

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Hello JPD community!

Last year, we introduced Global fields in Jira Product Discovery to simplify admin work and drive consistency and standardize across teams.

We listened to your feedback to make it even easier for you to discover, manage, and transition to global fields.

Migrate space fields' value to Global fields

You want to replace a space field with a global field but are afraid it will take too much time? No worries, we can help. Once you’ve created your global field and added it to your spaces, go to the fields page and click Migrate values.

You can then safely remove the space field and add the global field to the views. 

Add global fields directly from views

You can now add global fields to your spaces and your views directly from a view: no need to go to Project settings and the Fields page anymore! This brings visibility to the global fields that already exist and avoids context switching.

Global fields suggestions

You’ve created some global fields, and you’ve noticed your users are still recreating this field as a space field? This is over! When creating a new field, users are now shown suggestions for existing, corresponding global fields, so they can reuse an existing global field and assess whether the creation of a new field is necessary.

We hope these improvements help you standardize and scale your product discovery practices, and as usual don't hesitate to share feedback in the comments below 

Cheers,
Hermance
Sr. Product Manager @ Jira Product Discovery

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Hermance NDounga 

Thanks for the information!  Does the migrate feature handle moving a JPD date-format field to a global date-picker one yet, or does that still require intervention such as using an automation rule?  Thanks!

Kind regards,
Bill

[Hermance NDounga]

Hello Bill, 

You can migrate a space field type JPD date format to a global field type JPD date format. 

The date picker that is supported in Jira isn't supported in JPD, so you can neither see it in the list of global fields in Jira Product Discovery, nor add it to a JPD space. So the migrate value tool cannot work with this unssuported type. 

Best Regards,
Hermance
Sr. Product Manager @ Jira Product Discovery