Why can't I remove "Fix Version/s" from Jira screens?

[Robert Werner]

In a Jira project's Settings > Fields page I have removed all references to "Fix Version/s".  It clearly says "No screens" for this field.

Yet the field keeps appears nonetheless.

Why is this?

Robert

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's a system field, built into the core and hence rather difficult to get rid of.

The best you can do is use "hide" in the field configurations - this will mostly get rid of it at a project level (it will still appear if people put data in it before you hid it)

[Robert Werner]

Thanks, @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-.  I didn't realize I could do this.  Worked perfectly.

That said, I think Atlassian should give much thought to how all of the working pieces come together to turn on/off fields.  IMO there should be an Admin option on every single screen to hide/show individual fields, with a dialog box to control the scope of such a change.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Indeed.  I've wanted to take "field configurations" out the back and put it out of my misery for years, moving the functions to screens instead.