Today you cannot have a single custom field that can be used by User Stories and Defects. We have some 3rd party and custom tools that we want to make reference to in both of these type of workitems but cannot easily because I cannot create a single reference field for both.
by: Steven M. | over a year ago | Administration
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Agreed. This also causes a problem when you want to filter. If you have a custom field called "Foo" with choices "Foo 1", "Foo 2", "Foo 3", and then go to filter your view for items that are "Foo 1" (ie go into "More" and select Foo 1 from both of the custom fields, it does not work because one field applies to defects, and one to backlogs. Thus your result is zero. You have to the field one time for defects, see the results, and one time for backlogs.
Being able to share custom field data between backlog items would be ideal. Similar to how the "reference" field works when creating a defect from an Issue. The text in the reference field is transferred.
Custom fields can be created across Stories (backlog items) and Defects as of the Summer 2009 Release. You'll see a new category on the Custom Fields page in Administration.