Sharing custom fields across projects - Team Managed Project

Niki Woolston

Hi there

I have some custom fields created in my Jira Workflow Management project (team-managed), that I want to utilise in another project but it doesnt seem possible. When I go to custom fields and search, my created custom fields don't even show up. 

I am able to utilise a custom field from another company managed project however - does it not work the other way round?

Thanks for any advice..

 

John Funk

Hi Niki,

You can use shared fields now, you just have to initiate them like you would with a Company-managed project. 

You go to Settings > Issues > Custom Fields and create your custom field. Then add a context for it for each project that will be using the field, regardless of the project type. 

Then when you are in the Team-manage project, you click on the link at the bottom right below where you create custom fields to search for the custom field you created in the above manor. 

No, you will not be able to use the existing fields you have created in the Team-managed projects like that. But you can create the new one, and move the data from the current field to the new one. Then you can get rid of the current field. Just be sure to name them something different - at least at the beginning, so you can differentiate from them because Jira will let you create the new ones with the exact same name as the existing ones.