Seeing multiple Story points field

Question

Hi everyone,

We found that two fields are called roughly the same thing: `Story points` and `Story Points` in the Jira settings.

This causes an issue elsewhere on our system and would love to get this fixed.

This is *not* about `Story point estimate` which is also another field we have but do not causes any issues.

Upon going to Jira / Settings / Issues / Fields, I do see the following Story points fields:

That being said, I cannot find the `Story points` field any where in the custom fields list. Only `Story Points`:

Could you please let me know if I'm missing something obvious?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The "system" story points field is not locked like the "story point estimate" because it does not need protecting against mis-configuration, bu it is the easiest (and hence best) one to stick with.

You are not missing anything obvious, it's just that someone has added "Story points" somewhere, when they should have just re-used "Story Points" to be consistent.

I suspect it has been added to a team-managed project, so it's going to be a bit of a pain to find, but try running a search for "Story points is not empty" (with the capitalisation you've got in your field list), this should at least tell you which project has it.

Pierre Laurac · Accepted Answer

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the suggestion!

It was indeed a team-managed project but really hard to find.

For future reference, what I ended up doing was to use the API:
- List all custom fields (It did list the two custom fields)

- the culprit custom field had a scope indicating the project ID.

- Listed all projects and found the project itself.

- Trying to delete via the API but receive a 404 error when using the ID returned by the API. I'm still unable to find the field in the UI to delete it.

Would you know why a 404 is returned here?