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Deleted custom field

Mauro Giavarini
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May 26, 2020

Someone deleted an important custom field shared by all projects, can it be brought back?

 

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May 26, 2020

Hey @Mauro Giavarini ,

The only way I know is to retrieve a deleted custom field is to restore your Jira from a backup.

If you would like to try XML backup, you may refer to the following link:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/restoring-data-from-an-xml-backup-938847707.html?_ga=2.177482726.292949779.1590315553-1372120514.1552382236

--Ravya

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Jack Brickey
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May 26, 2020

and change permissions for Delete. No one except Admin should have this permission IMO.

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