Custom Field Optimizer - Fields and ZERO projects

Suresh Venkat

In the Custom Field Optimizer View, there are Custom fields with Global context and a column says used by ZERO projects. Not sure what does this mean?
1. Does it mean - there are No Active projects, which are using this field?
2. Does it mean - there could be Archived projects, which could be using this field, but since we have archived the project or issues within a project (which could have used it in the past, but archived now), hence it shows ZERO project.

Rami Baccar

It means that there is no issues belonging to an active project using this custom field.
But be careful this custom Field can be included in some Screen schemes, so it can be populated in the future.
Also this field can be a scripted fields or a special plugin field that have not to be populated with any values.
It could be also issues in archived projects, which used this field.
To be save don't use the optimizer in the case of "0 Project" because the optimizer will delete  the context and It's very difficult to restore it. In this case just assign this custom field to a dummy project to preserve the context.