Rename Custom Field

[John Amerongen]

Is there a way to rename a custom field?  So there user created field called "Touchdown".  It has a configuration and sub fields (I'm not interested in changing these).  It seems every article I find tells how to change the configured values for the field or talks about risks in changing out of the box fields that come with Jira.  Is there a way for me to change "Touchdown" to "Field Goal" as the custom field name?  Thanks

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

If you have admin rights, just go to Administration > Issues > Custom Fields and then select to edit the Touchdown field. https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/adding-editing-and-deleting-a-custom-field-776636410.html

[John Amerongen]

Thank you Mikael.  You know, like so many other people asking questions, it seems so simple!  I cant believe in the 45 minutes I played around looking for this I could not find it.  Thank you again - appreciate the help.

[Dustin Ogburn]

I just wanted to update - there's a new article specifically for Editing and Deleting Custom fields

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/edit-or-delete-a-custom-field/

Wanted to share since I was stuck on deleting and renaming a custom field, and the original article had been changed since Mikael's post

[Ivan Rubio]

@Mikael Sandberg do you know if changing the name of the options in a drop down list custom field would somehow mess up with the records that have that value?

[Mikael Sandberg]

@Ivan Rubio renaming the values in a select field will affect existing issues. If you do not want to do that then you can disable the existing value and add a new one, that way the user can then select to change it later if needed.

[amorais]

@Mikael Sandberg I've done what Ivan suggested. I have renamed an option of my select custom field. My existing issues are affected which is great!

Now the issue that I have is that filtering does not work with the value updated.

Detailed issue is here https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Update-select-option-of-CF-breaks-the-search/qaq-p/2860973#U2860977

Do you by any chance have an idea of what I am doing wrong ?

Thanks