Will deleting global context from a custom field remove it from other custom fields?

Jeremy Benson October 4, 2024

Hello,

I created a new field, it picked up the global context and is appearing on all issue types in all projects. I only want this field to appear on some issue types in some projects. 

I created a new context that reflects the desired context, so I think the next step is to go to the custom field contexts menu and 'delete' the global context, I just want to make sure that isn't going to delete the global context from other fields or delete data.

It's not clear that 'deleting' the context will only affect this field from the menu and delete is a pretty strongly worded action vs 'remove'

Can anyone confirm this?

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Manoj Gangwar
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October 4, 2024

Hi @Jeremy Benson  Welcome to the community!

 

You can run a JQL query to check if the field has data from other projects then do not delete the context else you can delete it.

you can run below JQL-

Project != "your project name" AND "Field Name" is not empty

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Max - Swift Checklist Dev
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October 4, 2024

Hi @Jeremy Benson ,

The documentation says the following

When deleting a global context, remember that the field will be removed from all projects that aren’t selected in any other context.

 

So, it should work well, but I would test it on a dev instance anyway.

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