Project lead would like to add custom fields to his project. I am happy to do this but this appears to affect the default scheme....I only want to do this per project.
You can define a context for the field you are creating.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+a+Custom+Field#ConfiguringaCustomField-Context
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