Can I use a custom field from a classic project in a next-gen project?

vicky_1qi1zu

I'm using a Classic project for my Engineering team, and a Next-Gen project for non-engineering triage (for customer support, marketing, etc. to enter requests and problems, and for product management to triage the problems there in a simple way before they are moved to the classic engineering project with more complex, standardized workflows).

I have a couple of custom fields created in the Classic project that are required for our Engineering workflow (ex: company department, product feature). I'd like to also require these custom fields in the Triage project, but manage the fields in one centralized place, to ensure the same options are in the dropdowns for those fields.

Is this possible? I don't currently see any way to associate the custom fields to the issue types from the next-gen project.

Petter Gonçalves

Hello Vicky,

Thank you for raising this question.

Unfortunately, You are correct to say that the custom fields of Classic Projects are not applied for Next-Gen Projects.

In fact, Next-gen projects were created to provide simple functionalities for teams which do not need the complexity of JIRA software as Contexts for Custom fields, Field Configuration Schemes, etc.

That being said, next-gen projects have almost all features specially developed for it,  Including Custom fields. So it can not be shared with other project types and vice-versa.

Additionally, our development team is still working to implement all custom fields types available in the Classic Projects for the Next-gen platform too as you can see in the feature request below:

- Custom fields for Next-gen project

Please, let me know if the information above clarifies your question.