There will be times when a field is no longer needed. When this happens, instead of deleting the field, which would also remove all its data, you can choose to hide it. So if you need the field again further down the track, you can simply unhide it and retain all the data.
In this recipe, we will be hiding both the Priority and Due Date fields.
Proceed with the following steps to hide a field in JIRA:
Using field configuration is one way to hide fields from the user. There are two more ways to make a field hidden from view:
Hiding the field with field configuration will make it hidden from all screens, so if you want to hide the field from specific screens, you should not use field configuration, but simply take the field off the appropriate screens. For example, if you want to make a field read-only after an issue is created, you can simply take it off the screen assigned to the edit issue operation.