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Create a Colored Label Manager custom field

Colored Label Manager Custom fields are not supported inside team-managed projects in Jira. Use company managed projects instead.
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Managing native Jira labels don’t require creating a Colored Label Manager custom field.

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As Jira Administrator:

  1. Click on Settings

  2. Go to → Issues

  3. Click on Custom fields (Side-navigation)

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  1. Click on Create custom field Button 

  2. Select All → Search Label

  3. → Select Colored Labels

  4. Click Next

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  1. Enter a Name and Description

  2. Click Create

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  1. Optional: Associate the new created field with screens

  2. Click on update
    Label Manager Custom Fields behave like normal custom fields and need to be put on the correct screens to appear in projects.

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To access Global Administration

  1. Go to Settings

  2. Click on Apps

  3. Open Colored Labels from the left sidebar

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Label Specific Color (default)

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In this view you can manage Global Colored labels :

  1. Create label and add it to a Jira issues

  2. Add color to labels

  3. Add description to labels

  4. Search for specific labels

  5. Check how many issues one label is assinged

  6. Export labels to CSV

  7. Edit labels

  8. Merge labels

  9. Delete one or multiple labels

  10. Add label to multiple Jira issues.

  11. Remove label from multiple Jira issues

The Click to see issues column shows you how many times a label has been used. Clicking on that link opens a new tab with a filter that shows all issues with that label in your project.

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