Duplicate Custom Fields

Question

Hi Guys need your Assistance to remove the Duplicate custom fields in JIRA Production environment.

Guys my seniours have created many duplicate custom fields in our production instance and it is been associated with the many live projects we cant able to delete those customfields and if we delete means datas will be lost in these custom fields so need your assistance to solve these issue.

John Funk · Answer

You can modify the name by doing an Edit on the custom field. Simply change the name to something different than the current one. For example if you have two fields that say Start Date and you need them to have different meanings, then change one of them from Start Date to Project Start Date or Session Start Date - or whatever is more descriptive.

If you have values in that field that should apply to the real Start Date and not the new Project Start Date for example, you will need to use the bulk change function to copy them over. However, you will have to do that for each different date that you have.

The other option is to put the new values in a spreadsheet (be sure to include the Key in the Spreadsheet) and them upload them to do a mass update to the issues.

Rajesh Ramankutty_8dvku4 · Answer

Thank you will work it and come back sir

Rajesh Ramankutty_8dvku4 · Answer

@John Funk it means same name for many custom fields