What happens when you remove a field from a project?

Bryan Karsh

Hi,

Let's say you have a project with several issues in it -- the issues have a particular field populated with data -- let's call it foo.

If I remove foo from the project screens -- what happens to the data previously stored in foo? Is the foo/project relationship still stored somewhere? Would search still pick up issues that had previously used this field?

Was curious. Thanks!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

It depends on how you remove the field.

Derrick already covered two cases:

• Removing from the screen - no effect, other than you can't see it (Assuming it's removed from the view screen) or add/amend values (if removed from Create, Edit or transition screens)
• Deleting the field from Jira - gone, dead, need to go to a backup of the database to get it

The other two are:

• Removed from field context
• Removed from field configuration

In both cases, existing data will remain, but won't be searchable in simple search.