How to copy a custom field

Steven Rhodes

I have a JIRA project that has a custom field dropdown which is multi level and has a few hundred values in it. There are people using this custom field in their JQL to add issues to their board and in their filters, so if I use this custom field in another project its possible these issues will also appear. This is a central custom field that a lot of other projects depend upon.

For this reason, I'd like to make a copy of this custom field, but how? There is no option for this. I can find solutions on taking the value of one custom field and setting it in another (with Scriptrunner), but this is not what I'm talking about. I simply want to copy a custom field instead of re-creating it and hundreds of values within it.

John Funk

Hi Steven,

You can add a new Context to the field and show different values for that field based on project or issue type or a combination of both. 

Go to Settings > Issues > Custom fields

Then search for the custom field

Click on the 3 dots to the far right of the field and choose Contexts and default value

Then click on Add New context

You will need to add the options from scrap (or cut and paste one at a time)

Be sure to Edit configuration to limit to certain issue types and/or projects.