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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-64477

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

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    • We collect Jira feedback from various sources, and we evaluate what we've collected when planning our product roadmap. To understand how this piece of feedback will be reviewed, see our Implementation of New Features Policy.

      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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