I use dropdown values in custom fields for planning sprints. The problem: Over time, the number of presets I've created is only going to increase, and wading through the drop-down menu is becoming cumbersome. I don't want to outright delete existing options, since I want those values to remain available for reporting purposes. But: I want the option of only seeing "active" values when managing tasks and assigning them to sprints.

What I think I would like is the ability to (1) set custom field dropdown values as active/inactive; (2) have "active" values appear by default in changing custom fields in the list or when editing an open task. For me, having active values be the default visibility for creating filters as well would be good (with clickable option to see all?) but that might be a separate feature request and isn't my main priority.

I would like a way to mark a picklist value inactive rather than deleting it in order to retain historical data. For example, if I have a custom field with 4 picklist values (Orange, Green, Yellow and Blue). These values have been used for years and today we find out we no longer need “Yellow” as a choice. We want to prevent users from selecting it in the future, but we don’t want to lose the value on the tasks it was previously used on in the historical tasks – just prevent it from being used moving forward.

Currently, you cannot deactivate any values and instead, you are forced to delete the values or create a duplicated field to remove it. This is not helpful because we want the ability to see what happened with a request previously while also being able to keep our values updated so old values are not being selected. This is not helpful from a reporting perspective either.