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Accessing Field Editor

As a normal Jira user you can edit customfield options using the Field Editor. Before you can use the Field Editor, your Jira Administrator has to grant you permissions on the desired customfields. To access the Field Editor, follow the steps below:

  • Select in the Jira top navigation bar Expand Sidebar > Apps > Customfield Editor for Jira.

  • The App page will appear and show you a list of customfields.

Note: Atlassian has introduced a new navigation in 2025. See how you can access the Field Editor in the Jira navigation pre 2025 .

  • Select in the Jira top navigation bar Apps > Customfield Editor for Jira.

  • The App page will appear and show you a list of customfields.

Note: Atlassian has introduced a new navigation in 2025. See how you can access the Field Editor in the new Jira navigation .

Supported Field Types

Currently the app supports the following Jira built-in custom field types:

Select List (single choice)
Represents a list of options. Has a single default value.

Select List (cascading)
Represents a list of options. Each option can have childoptions. Has a single compound default value consisting of a parent option and a child option.

Select List (multiple choices)
Represents a list of options. You can select multiple options. Has multiple options as default value.

Checkboxes
Represents a list of options. You can select multiple options. Has multiple options as default value.

Radio Buttons
Represents a list of options. You can select one single option. Has a single option as default value.

The app does NOT support project fields:

  • These are not real customfields and only exist on that project only.

  • A project admin can already fully customize and edit the options of these fields.

  • The Dropdown, Short Text, Checkbox, Labels a.s.o project fields are NOT supported by the App.

Team & Company managed projects

Currently the app supports editing customfields of both team managed and company managed projects.

Team-managed Projects and custom fields:

  • Project admins manage the project settings and can add existing customfields to the project

  • NOTE: No new context is created when adding customfield to project. The global context will be used

  • Customfield Editor for Jira can edit the options in the default context.

Company-managed Projects and custom fields:

  • Jira admins manage the project settings and can add new and existing customfields to the project

  • Jira admins can create contexts per project and issue type

  • Customfield Editor for Jira can edit the options in all these contexts.

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