Optimize fields in your site

The Site optimizer identifies fields that can be deleted from your site to improve its performance. It looks for fields created by an administrator that:

• aren’t in a project or a screen, or

• have no defined contexts

You can then easily remove unused fields in a few steps. This way, you can quickly clean out old data to improve the speed and responsiveness of your site.

The Site optimizer also provides insights into projects and schemes that exceed the recommended number of associated custom fields. It surfaces when action is required and allows administrators to review and manage the relevant schemes.

To view the field clean-up tool:

1. Navigate to the Jira admin panel using the  icon in the top nav.

2. Select System

3. In the sidebar, select Site optimizer, then Custom fields.

When you open the Site optimizer, you’ll find two primary cards that help you understand the state of the fields across your site.

Field usage — project-level

This card surfaces your project’s fields. The state changes depending on how close the projects are to the field limit.

The card signals three different states:

• Red: There are projects over the field limit (700 field limit per project). Action is required.

• Yellow: There are projects reaching the limit (over 75% of the 700 field limit) and need attention.

• Green: All projects are under the limit.

Unused fields — site-level

This card surfaces site-level fields that are currently unused. To optimize your site, we suggest they’re removed.

An unused field is based on the following criteria:

• it’s a global custom field

• it’s not a system field, or locked field

• and it’s not associated to any company managed project or screen.

Optimize fields in projects

There’s a few ways you can optimize the fields in your projects, directly from the project-level card.

1. If you’re not already there, navigate to the Site optimizer, then Custom fields.

2. For projects that are over, or reaching the limit, select Review and optimize.

3. For projects that are under the limit, select View details.

In both cases, you’ll be redirected to a screen that show the schemes state that helps you understand your field layout scheme and the specific projects that are over the limit, reaching the limit, or just right.

Statistics about all global field layout schemes, including scheme name, scheme ID, number of associated projects, field usage percentage, status (over-limit, high usage, under-limit, unassociated) are also listed.

Select Optimize scheme (or Delete) to manage any over usage. More on optimizing schemes.

Use Refresh to update your usage data at any stage. Data will automatically refresh daily.

Delete unused custom fields in bulk

1. If you’re not already there, navigate to Site optimizer.

2. Find Unused fields

3. Select Review and clean up. You’ll be directed to a screen that lists any unused fields across your site.

4. Select the ones you want to delete, or use the search bar to find a specific one

5. Select Move to trash. In the modal that pops up, confirm your choice.