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- You create on the production system a custom field with the same name. But Jira assigns its own ID, which that may be different from the ID on the test system.
- You move over the SIL scripts.
- You import the workflow, with the paths changed to the above SIl scripts if necessary.
Now, if you referred your custom field by its ID, you need to go through every script and do a search and replace with the new ID. If you referred it by name, maybe your colleague just added a custom field, used in some other project, that has the same name.
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