Temporarily unlock fields

[John Rossoni]

How do I temporarily unlock the Sprint field?

[Prachi Bolar]

Hi @John Rossoni ,

Welcome to community :) 

When you install a Jira product or plugin, some fields that are needed by that product or plugin are created and locked. These fields appear on the custom fields screen with the "Locked" label. Currently, the locked custom field can't be unlocked, edited, or deleted. You can only add the locked custom field to a screen and view the field details including applied contexts and associated screens. The following suggestion tracks customer interest in this issue: 

• JRACLOUD-64188: Ability to unlock system field, to Configure it

For more information, you can refer to the below-linked documentation:

• Locked-custom-fields

Thank You,

Prachi

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @John Rossoni 

Can you elaborate on what you are looking to do?  Is it just for one sprint, is it active, or do you mean for the entire project?

For a more in-depth and (what I found as entertaining) discussion on unlocking the sprint field, see this question from a few years ago.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Unlock-the-Sprint-Field/qaq-p/1391568