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Working with the Project Labels app is done from the directly from your project. Once the app has been installed, a new menu item called Label Manager will appear in every project. Click on it to get to the Label Manager.
Selecting Label Color Settings
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Just like other settings - you can select the ‘Label Color Settings' in the global administrations page for all projects or decide to use projects specific ‘Label Color Settings' in the project administrations page.
You can choose between two Label Color Settings Options
Label Specific Color
Issue Specific Traffic-Light Label Color
Option 1: Label Specific Color (default)
Label Specific Color is enabled by default.
Also new created Label have by default the color ‘grey-light’.
Label specific color means, that just like Epics, label will have a predefined color.
Again you can define that color globally for the label or decide to use your own colors within your project.
Colors can indicate labels with higher priority, or whatever you like those colors to mean within your Jira instance.
Once ‘Label Secific Color’ is selected in ‘3. Label Color Settings'. The Action ‘Change Color’ appears in the label rows.
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Just select the color you like the label to have and click on Submit. We will likely add more colors in the future.
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Already assigned labels on issues will get the color updated based on selection.
Checking Label Use in Your Project
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Renaming a label is done in place; just click on the label you want to rename, make a change and then click on the checkmark to the right of the input box. All issues with that label will be updated to use the new label name.
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Using Colored Label Manager for Jira, you can edit the label name as needed. The renaming will be reflected in all issues where the label was used.
To rename labels :
Go to your project
Open the Project labels from the left sidebar.
Click on the label and rename it
To rename labels in a project, go to Project → Manage Labels instead.
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Please note: If you are in global mode, administrative actions (rename, delete etc.) will affect all projects. If you do not want this, use per project label management. |
Merging Jira Labels
Sometimes, you will need to merge two labels. Typically, this happens when you notice different spellings for what should be the same label, like in the screenshot below:
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Once a label has been deleted, it will no longer be suggested when adding a label unless it is also in use in another project.
You can get rid of labels that are not needed anymore in your Jira environment. If you just want to rename or merge the duplicate labels, please refer to this page Rename labels in Jira instead.
To delete a label globally:
Go to Apps → Manage Labels
Find the label and click Delete. A confirm window will open, click OK.
If you have a label that is used in too many issues, this operation might take a while.
To delete a label only in a project, go to Project → Manage Labels instead.
Delete a label in Jira
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Sometimes deleted labels are still suggested in label field, please refer to Known Issues & limitations for workaround.