How to copy Project Field to a Global Field

[Ashleigh_Cox]

Hi all. 

We've made some fields in a Jira Discovery project and want to make them global fields. The article below "Migrate values from a project field to a global field" gives 4 steps to doing this - is Step 4 correct? 

I can "copy values" from the project field, but how do you get them to populate a global field? Any help would be great, thank you!

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-product-discovery/docs/create-and-manage-global-fields/

[Alex Ortiz]

@Ashleigh_Cox 

The instructions say you have to create the global field first, then apply it to your JPD project and then that field becomes a custom field that can be applied to any other project.

I think, what you are trying to do is you have a custom field in your JPD already and you are trying to make it global?  I don't think that's possible.  You have to create the global field first as per the instructions.

Hope that helps.  BTW, I did it and you can see it at the 50 minute mark of this video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqVj0b3Kcq8