Can the JIRA 7.7.1 Out of the box fields be copied?

[Deleted user]

Is it possible to have our of the box fields copied and reused? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

If you mean create more fields of the same type, then in most cases, no.  Almost all the "out of the box" fields are system fields which means you can't add more of the same.

But you can add "custom fields", some of which work in very similar or identical ways.

And you can use scripts or automations to copy the values of custom or system fields into other fields.

[Deleted user]

Nic,

Thank you.  Ok the hope was to copy and rename a system field and reuse it.  The context is custom fields lack capabilities over system fields. If this is incorrect please advise. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can't create more of the system field types.

What functions are you finding missing from the custom fields that are roughly analogous?

[Deleted user]

We were trying to identify a handful of system fields not Custom JIRA fields which could be re-purposed. I think that gap in my context what is the function capability difference between system field types and custom field types?  If a custom field can be used to audit, report, and query without obfuscation then we might be able to leverage this approach.  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That depends entirely on the field. 

For example,  Summary is a short-text field that works the same way as any other short-text field.  But is mandatory for issues and heavily used through the system view functions.

When it comes to reporting and querying, there's little difference between the various types of field.

But we need to know what you're really looking for before we can tell you much more.

[Deleted user]

Select “Out of Box” JIRA fields which will be re-purposed to:

• Permit data entry and collection of Actual Start / End dates
• Permit the retention of history
• Attributes

“Out of the Box” fields only

• Sufficient field length
• No previous data entry, only fields which have never been used
• No fields which permit pre-population
• Mapped by resource, by Issue
• Require mandatory completion at field level