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Deleted Statuses are still showing in the JQL Query

Stuart Harris November 10, 2021

My project is old and had little control with multiple people adding the same status's with slight variations, one example is Won't Do and WONT DO. I have since cleaned this up and have deleted the status's that are not required.

The issue is when users do a JQL query these are still given as an option and are confusing some people. 

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is there a way to purge these? 

2 answers

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Joe Pitt
Community Champion
November 10, 2021

Not sure, but clearing their cache may help. The long term solution is to:

Put JIRA under CR

 I STRONGLY suggest you treat JIRA like a production system, put it under change control (CR), and track all requests for any updates, especially new projects, new custom fields, changes in any of the schemes, etc. That way at least the reporter will know when the actions happen and you'll have a audit trail. I've worked many similar tools to JIRA and too many times no one knows anything about why they are configured why they are because there is no requirements or CR. Things are just done based on emails that have disappeared and hallway or lunch conversations.  

 If you don't already have a separate change control tool create a JIRA project. I use a basic workflow with a few custom issue types:

Custom field: with a select list of create, update. The description would be to create a new field or modify a current select list, buttons, etc. of a current one

Create Project: I would have text fields for issue types, custom fields, select list/values, per issue types

New Issue Type: description would include all fields and workflow desired.

Workflow: Select list of Create, update, delete. Description of what needed.

Other: Select list of Notification Scheme, permission scheme, field configuration, other

 This should get you started. If you aren't familiar with your CR process there should be a configuration management person to talk to.

 The goal is to manage what you do and be able to track who asked for what. For instance, if someone wants a new custom field you want to check to see if there already is one you can use that they don't know about. JIRA will let you have multiple custom fields with the same name, which will just confuse you.

 

Stuart Harris November 11, 2021

I have introduced change control but its too late for a lot of things. 

Stuart Harris November 11, 2021

This is not held in Browser cache. 

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Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
November 10, 2021

You say that you have cleaned them up and deleted them. Exactly where did you do that?

For Company Managed projects there is a list of available statuses under Settings > Issues > Statuses. Did you remove them from there?

Do you have any Team Managed projects where these other statuses are still in use?

Stuart Harris November 11, 2021

yes I removed them from Settings > Issues > Statuses

Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
November 11, 2021

Are there Team Managed projects on your system where the status might be used?

The Statuses in Team Managed projects are not included in the global list of Statuses.

Stuart Harris November 23, 2021

Where can I find that? 

Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
November 23, 2021

If you go to the View All Projects page
https://<yourURL>/jira/projects
you can see Team vs. Company Managed projects in the Type column

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