Currently I have a text field (custom) - It's a text box, I'd like to make it a number only box WITHOUT deleting it and recreating a new one. Is there anyway to change the format of a textbox to number only without deleting it and recreating it? Like change the Field Type to NUMBER ONLY, AFTER it being text?
Nop, you can't switch the kind of a custom field. You must recreate a new one (and delete the previous if it's necessary).
However, you can create an automation rule to copy the value from the old to the new .
kindly check out this question/thread for different approaches on copying the data from your old custom field to your new custom field: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Can-we-change-a-custom-field-created-from-quot-Text-field-quot/qaq-p/2229865
Best,
Hannes
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Sir, we have a field that was supposed to be a number and wrongly been formatted as text. Over 98% of the entered data are numbers and correct, about 2% are incorrectly entered as text ( two number with "," between) , If we make a new field, we loss three years history, which make the program useless. I need one of the following option
1- change the format from text to number and willing to loss that 2% of the data
2- make a new field with number format and transfer the old column, it's okay if we loss some data
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I need to know, if I create a new field, how I transfer to old field to this new field?
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kindly check out this question/thread for different approaches on copying the data from your old custom field to your new custom field: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Can-we-change-a-custom-field-created-from-quot-Text-field-quot/qaq-p/2229865
Best,
Hannes
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