📣 Product Update: Global fields & Fields management page

Hermance NDounga

Hello community!

We’re thrilled to announce two new features that will make it easier to manage fields in Jira Product Discovery: Global fields that can be used across discovery projects and a brand-new field management page 🚀

Global fields

Global fields are custom fields that can be reused across multiple projects and different Jira products.

With this feature, you can create centrally managed fields: all field properties are the same across all projects and can be updated from a single place. Learn more

 

To create a new global field:

1. Go to the top bar and select ⚙️ > Products.

2. Under Jira Product Discovery, select Global fields.

3. Click Create global field, select the type of field you want to create, and click Create.

Use cases

• You want to standardize across different projects: you can now achieve consistent naming and options.

• You want to reduce admin overhead: a field can be created once, updated once, and updates are automatically visible in all projects.

• You are using two discovery projects and often move ideas from one project to another: global fields values will be retained when moving.
  
  

 Migrate Space fields values to Global fields 

You want to replace a space field with a global field but are afraid it will take too much time? No worries, we can help. Once you’ve created your global field and added it to your spaces, go to the fields page and click Migrate values.

 

To do it in bulk, you can also check this tutorial to migrate values to global fields via csv.

New field management page

With the introduction of global fields, we’re also releasing a new field management experience that makes it easy to create new fields and add existing global fields to your project from a single page. Learn more 🔥

While Jira admins are the only ones able to create and modify global fields, thanks to this page, adding global fields to discovery projects can be delegated to project admins 👨🏼‍💻 for less friction.

 

To access the new fields management page, in your discovery project, go to Project settings > Fields.

 

Both of these features will make it easier for Jira Product Discovery users to achieve consistency across their projects, while at the same time reducing the burden on admins. We will continue making improvements to both features, so stay tuned!

Don’t hesitate to share any feedback on the feature using the “Give feedback” button in Jira Product Discovery or the comments below.

Haddon Fisher

This is great news! There's a basic expectation set by the last 20+ years that custom fields are instance-wide, so seeing this start to be addressed is great.

One callout: You keep trying to delegate custom field access to project managers (team-managed projects and now this "field management page") without really addressing any of the underlying problems this would create.

For example, does this feature enforce uniqueness in field names? When site admins were the only ones who could create fields it was somewhat safe for Jira to assume there wouldn't be duplicative names or that if there were, it was by design; the introduction of team-managed projects exposed the limitations with that assumption and the many UX issues and technical bugs relying on it to be true.

I absolutely love that y'all are continuing to innovate and try things. And, it is really important that these experiments and risks don't continue to compromise the rest of the experience.