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The Zone Field is a JIRA Custom Field. Therefore it can be used like any other Custom Field on JIRA Screens, in Workflows, Filters and many more. More specifically a Zone Field is a group custom field, and therefore can also be used in Notification- , Permission- and Issue Security Schemes.
A Zone Field
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provides access to Zones of a common type
The name of the Zone Field may be something like: "Customer", "Tenant", "Product" or "Team". This is also the type of Zones in the Field. If you want to partition your JIRA for your Customers you will want to have the Zone name contain the customers name and the Zone Field name to be something like "Customer or "Tenant. If you want to partition your JIRA for different type of Zones you will want to create multiple Zone Fields.
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