New "External issue ID" field is created on each import

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      NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      It'd be better to offer an option to reuse a previously created field.

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      Workaround

      The reason duplicate fields are created is that the External issue ID field is created with project specific context. To avoid this behavior, you can create a global context for one of those fields and delete any duplicates.

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