Cloning a project

[Deleted user]

We have invested a lot of time to customize a project for a specific purpose, incl. customized context fields that are required for our dashboards. The project relates to a country, in this case "Germany."

We would like to duplicate or clone this project such that all this customization remains intact and we can use it for another country, e.g., "France."

How can this be done?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[MinC · Accepted solution]

Please give it a try to change the description via Administration > Issue Fields > Field Configuration Scheme.

[Trevor Marshall]

That did it, thanks!

[Ibrahim]

I've made a feature request to see if we can make this more intuitive within JIRA.

JRA-40782

The full documentation on custom field description behavior is found here: Configuring a Custom Field.

Adding a snippet of the documentation here as well.

Changing the description of a custom field

Not changing the description in a field configuration means that any changes you make to a custom field's description are not seen.

JIRA allows you to define a description of a custom field, and if the field configuration descriptions are left empty then the original description text will appear when you create or edit an issue, and as help text in the Issue Navigator. However you can also define different description texts in each field configuration and this will override the original field description text.

For example if a custom field "My Field" is defined with a description of "This is my field" and no field configuration changes are made, then the displayed text will be "This is my field" as expected. If field configurations are used and a description "This is my excellent field" is set for the custom field in the field description, then the displayed text will be "This is my excellent field".