Archiving Custom Fields

[Tim Hailey]

Does anyone know of a way to archive custom fields that aren't being used anymore so that I can preserve the historical custom field info in tickets?

[Crystelle S]

Hey! So let me know if I am reading this correctly: you want to still show the field but you don't want anyone to use it anymore? You could remove the field from the create and edit screen, leave it on the view-screen. I don't believe there is field level security in JIRA.

Some other ideas center around an "after update" condition that literally just bounces the user back if they change the value and are not in a given field... I like to use a highly restricted role like jira admin.