Issue Summary

Unused Fields in project or the fields which are not present on the screen will be removed from field configuration of the project and are not available for use in Automation/Form/JQL

Steps to Reproduce

Due to recent changes for performance improvement the unused fields will be automatically removed from the field configuration in the instance. For more details please find below community article for your reference.

Announcement: Changes to field and work type configuration in Jira Cloud

Expected Results:

Ideally these fields should be available for use in Automation/Form/JQL even if the fields are not present in the filed configuration schemes associated with the project

Actual Results

Unused Fields in project or the fields which are not present on the screen will be removed from field configuration of the project and are not available for use in Automation/Form/JQL

Workaround

Add those fields to the field configuration if you would like to use it in  Automation/Form/JQL