This page applies to Risk Register for Jira Data Center and Jira Server
When you restore from a Jira backup, custom fields in the source Jira instance are re-created in the target Jira instance, but with different IDs. Also restored is a database table that contains Risk Register's internal configuration, which references particular custom field IDs. You therefore end up with Risk Register's internal configuration 'pointing to' custom fields by IDs that don't exist in the target Jira instance.
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