Increase custom field amount for team-managed (formerly next-gen) projects

Atlassian update (Feb 2023)

Hi everyone, thank you for your interest on this ticket. We’ve recently introduced the ability to re-use global custom fields in team-managed projects, which allows you to effectively use more than 50 custom fields in team-managed projects. This comes with the added benefit of being able to re-use fields across projects. Global custom fields also have a higher limit of options (note that we do not recommend having too many as it can affect performance of your Atlassian Cloud Instance). If you have a specific need to create more than 50 team-managed fields, please reach out to me at clow@atlassian.com so that I can understand your use cases better.

note: functionality of fields created in team-managed projects still remain the same and will not show up in other team-managed projects. Please feel free to reach out with any feedback on this new feature. 

Regards,

Carol Low

Jira Cloud PM

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Summary

Currently, team-managed (formerly next-gen) projects are limited to 50 custom fields and 55 field options. When adding options above the limit, users get the following message:

You can't add more than 55 field options

Suggestions

Allow team-managed (formerly next-gen) projects to have more custom fields

Workaround: 

Please contact Atlassian Support, raising a technical issues and bugs request. We are happy to increase this limit for customers.
Keep in mind that the change can affect performance of your Atlassian Cloud instance.