Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

Deleting a field from a screen

Fields can be removed from a screen completely. When a field is taken off, the field will not appear when the screen is presented to the user. There is a subtle difference between deleting a field from a screen and hiding it (as discussed in Chapter 5, Field Management). Although both actions will prevent the field from showing up, by removing the field issues will not receive a value for that field when they are created. This becomes important when a field is configured to have a default value. When the field is removed from the screen, the issue will not have the default value for the field; while if the field is simply hidden, the default value will be applied.

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