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Does a global custom field span all projects?

Brian Beard

My admin created a global custom field named Owner. We currently have about 20 projects in Jira. We added the Owner field to some of the projects and then added an actual Owner. When I put the Owner on a List, it seems as though the Owner is not in the same field. One project has the owner in the cf[10067] field and another project has it in the cf[10064] field. Wouldn't this custom field be used across all of the projects and be in the same field?

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Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_

Hi Brian,

Yes a global custom field does span all the projects. But Jira will allow you to create multiple custom fields that have the same name. Which looks like just happened. I would recommend not reusing custom field names.

Susan

Mikael Sandberg

Next-gen projects do not have the notion of global fields, instead each next-gen projects is almost like it's own island. If you create a custom field in one next-gen project, it is not available for any other projects that you have. Same thing goes with custom fields that you created of your classic projects, those are not visible in a next-gen project.

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Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_

Hi Brian,

Susan

Brian Beard

thanks for the reply. So most likely our Admin may have created a global custom field but there are other custom fields with the same name tied to specific projects. Is there a way to know which are global vs not? I assume I need to remove all of the custom fields named Owner that is not the global one. of course, if I do that then I will lose any data in those fields but we are a small company and I can coordinate that with the users that may be using them.

Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_

In Custom Fields in the admin, a context is listed:

And you are correct on both counts about losing the data in those fields when you delete the duplicate custom field.

Susan

Brian Beard

sorry to be a pest, but how did you get to the screen above? I have been given Jira Admin access but I can't seem to find what you are showing. I just see Owner on the Custom Fields screen and it says it is 1 context on 21 screens.

for some reason I can't screen print what I see

also, Owner is not a default Custom field, correct?

Mikael Sandberg

Brian Beard

well, that explains it. Does the Assignee field work the same way since it is a Jira standard field? thanks for your response.

Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_

Thanks @Mikael Sandberg Really appreciate the help!

Mikael Sandberg

@Brian Beardyes all the system fields work the same way as in a classic project.

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