Carol Low Atlassian Team

Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on the upcoming transition from Field Configurations to the new Field Schemes, announced on this post late last year. We understand that this is a significant architectural change, especially for our veteran Jira Admins managing large-scale instances. To help clarify the…

Update 26th February: We've consolidated all your top questions and created reference guides to the new Field Schemes in this new community article- please be sure to check there for the latest information. -- Starting in May 2026, we’re introducing a powerful new way to manage fields. We will be retiring Field…

Hi everyone! We are officially beginning the progressive rollout of Field Schemes, the new unified way to manage fields in Jira! After getting valuable feedback from you during our Open Beta, we are retiring the legacy "Field Configurations" and "Field Configuration Schemes" to simplify field management, especially for…

Quick update (1st July): We've started shipping out the UI improvements, and some of the features, showing System fields/sorting by field type, will be following in a separate release. Hey Jira admins! I’m Carol, one of the Product Managers working in the Jira Admin space, and I’m here to announce updates that will be…

Hey everyone! We’re getting ready to introduce support for multiple field contexts per space, and we’re looking for customers to help us test it through an Early Access Program (EAP). Today, a custom field context can be associated with a set of spaces and work types, but a space can only have a single context for a field.…

Hi Jira admins! 👋 I'm Carol, a Product Manager on the Jira Configuration team. I'm working on something I think you'll have strong opinions about: should your team members be able to see space settings? The problem we're trying to solve Today, space settings are completely hidden from non-admin users. If a team member…

Hi everyone, Carol from the Product team here, and I’m pleased to announce a new experience for managing fields in team-managed projects. We’ve heard your feedback that it can be hard to learn how to configure fields in Jira, and this is one of the first steps we are taking to bring you a better experience for managing…

Hi everyone, it's me again, and this time we are looking for a handful of Jira Administrators to test a new prototype for how field options are configured and mapped to different spaces and work types.We want to capture a wide range of experiences, so you don't need any specific advanced setup to participate - we just want…

Hello Jira Cloud Admins, We are pleased to share that we will be soon releasing the ability for you to re-use global custom fields in your team-managed projects. Watch out for this feature early in 2023. Team-managed projects, as its name suggests, empowers teams to configure their own projects to suit how they work. With…

Hello everyone, I’m Carol, product manager here at Atlassian looking at issues and fields configurations in Jira Cloud. One of the questions we often get is: “I’ve added the “Story points” field to the issue layout/screen, why don’t “Story points” show up on the issue view for some issue types?” Before I dive into the…

Hi Jira admins, it’s Carol here again 👋 I’m happy to announce that we are bringing team-managed fields into the Fields page. What’s coming now Starting in early November, team-managed fields will be available on the main Fields page, allowing you to manage them alongside company-managed fields. We’re also introducing a new…

Hi everyone, We're thrilled to announce the release of Priority schemes for Jira Cloud, letting you customize priorities for your projects. This much-awaited feature has gathered significant interest, as evidenced by the numerous signups for our Early Access program. Exiting the Beta phase, we're now progressively rolling…

Hey everyone, It’s me again, back with an update on all our field improvement initiatives. If you’ve missed my original post on all the changes we have planned, head here. Let’s start with the highlights: Fields management page is now live for everyone! (*unless you are on bundled release tracks) This includes the…

Hey everyone! We’re pleased to announce that we’ve began rolling out a new feature which allows you to unlink previously used project keys. This means you’ll be able to release previous keys to be used in new projects. Please note that any previously saved links/filters/queries referring to the old key will need to be…

Hi everyone, Carol from the Product team here, and I’m pleased to announce a new experience for managing fields in team-managed projects. We’ve heard your feedback that it can be hard to learn how to configure fields in Jira, and this is one of the first steps we are taking to bring you a better experience for managing…

Hello, I’m Carol, a PM on the Jira team looking after the configuration experiences in Jira. We’re currently improving the way admins manage Project fields, and we’re looking for customers to join an Early Access Program (EAP) to help us test what we’ve built. On this post, I’ll run through what the change is and what…

Hello, I’m Carol, a PM on the Jira team looking after the configuration experiences in Jira. We’re currently improving the way admins manage Project fields, and we’re looking for customers to join an Early Access Program (EAP) to help us test what we’ve built. On this post, I’ll run through what the change is and what…