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Hiding an active Custom Field

Moshe Yakobovich_gjrlmj

Hi,

I have a custom field that I am populating from my Forge extension via API. I need it since there are some things not supported in Jira that I want to do, so I'm doing it from a spreadsheet. The thing is, I don't want this field to be displayed in the UI, no one should care about it - but if I hide it or remove it's association, I cannot set the value. I think there's a way to put it in a different tab / panel, but I don't want that as well.

Is there a way to keep the custom field alive but not to display it in the screen?

Regards,

Moshe

Accepted answers

John Funk

Hi Moshe - you should be able to leave it on the Create screen, but remove it from the other screens.

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John Funk

Hi Moshe - you should be able to leave it on the Create screen, but remove it from the other screens.

Moshe Yakobovich_gjrlmj

Thanks for your quick response.

I tried removing the associated screen (common for many projects) and keep another one. Although it still allows me to query the field and see it on the JQL results, updating the field fails (the API is not able to update the field, I get 400 error code). Any other idea?

John Funk

Ah, I forgot you were doing this through the API. So if you add the field back to the Edit screen, then the API works? If so, that's just what you will have to do. And yes, I would create another tab called System or something like that. People are less likely to click on it then.

Kelly Arrey

Another hack line of attack which you could try if you really want to hide it is to:

put the field on a separate screen
associate the screen with one or more workflow transitions
trigger the transition via the API

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