Used vs. unused fields within the Project

[Lakshmi S]

Hi Team,

Is it possible to get a report of all the used vs. unused fields within the project. The project has lot of fields added for each issue type. We started cleaning up the project, and want to remove unused fields from project screens.

Thanks!

[Darryl Lee]

Hi @Lakshmi S , on Jira Server as far as "usage" goes, you can only see the number of screens where a field is used. That's not particularly useful.

If you're instead looking for things like: "What custom fields are only used in 10 or fewer issues?" then yeah, you'll really want to use an add-on like Optimizer for Jira which will give you exactly that kind of reporting to allow you to clean up unused fields.

Other add-ons (which I have not used, but appear to have similar features) include:

• Config Insights for Jira 
• Power Admin for Jira 

I suppose @Benjamin is right that you could also query the database, or even make a do a bunch of JQL searches for every custom field:

"customfield x" is empty

But that's a lot of work.

You might be able to automate this using the REST API and the search method, OR the getIssueCount action in Bob Swift's Jira CLI.

[Benjamin]

HI @Lakshmi S ,

You can see what fields are used under admin issue page. You should be able to see a column on usage in custom fields. Now there are some custom field created by add-ons which the usage will not show up accurately. For all others, it will show.

IF you want. a level of granularity or spreadsheet, you'll need to query the DB or look for add-ons.

-Ben