Custom Field - Context and Custom Labels

[Brian Haskins]

We currently have a custom field named Risk/Impact/Cost that is a Text Field (multi-line) that is used for several projects. I was hoping Context could help this out but I am struggling. 

The initial ask is that the project wants Risk/Cost and not impact in there. 

I tried adding Context for the project specific but it appears that it only affects the values and not the field label. I believe I have to rename the field in Custom Fieldsand cause issues with the several other projects. 

I did update the description in Field Configuration to describe what they want for it. It is an issue with the label. I did run across this picture below for Custom fields in JIRA Server but it probably is still applicable for JIRA cloud. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Brian Haskins 

I don't think there is a built in feature to set the label for a field to different values based on context/project.

When I worked with JIRA Data Center I used Behaviors from the Adaptavist Scriptrunner app to do that. I don't have that app at my current employer where we use JIRA Cloud. I'm not sure if Scriptrunner supports the same feature for JIRA Cloud.

[David Pinn]

Hi Brian,

Just to clarify, you wrote, "The initial ask is that the project wants Risk/Cost and not impact in there." Do they want to just hide the impact field, or do they want to rename it?

Hiding a field can be accomplished with field configuration schemes. Renaming a field can only be done at the global level.

I may be barking up the wrong tree here, but does their desire to rename the field suggest to you that they actually want a different custom field? Could you give them a copy of the impact field?

[Brian Haskins]

@David Pinn 

We have a custom field labeled "Risk/Impact/Cost" that is used across several projects currently. The user wanted that field to say just "Risk/Cost" and I didn't want to create a new custom field since we have almost 200 customs. Risk/Cost is the same definition as Risk/Impact/Cost without the word Impact in the field label.