Renaming a custom field - does it affect filters?

Question

Hi All,

we got a  request of changing a custom field's name but we are not aware of filters that apply this custom field.

My question is: what will happen to those filters that apply this field after renaming?

+question: is there a script which returns the filters for a particular custom field? I.e. listing those filters that apply the custom field.

Thanks in advance,

Rumi

James Rickards (Personal) · Answer

The above bug was rejected. I've created a 'suggestion' with an alternative approach to support renaming of custom fields by at least telling the administrator what filters will be impacted.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-61048

Özerk Dolanbay · Answer

Hi Rumceisz,
Could you find an answer?

Pedro Souza · Answer

Hello,

If you change the customfield name, the filters will stop working, complaining that the field does not exist.

You can change all the filters directly on the database to apply the new customfield name.

I've forwarded this to our developers at jira.atlassian.comas a new bug report:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-38795

Feel free to vote and add your comments to the bug report.

Cheers.