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Create a Label Manager custom field

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‘Label Manager Custom fields are not supported inside team-managed projects in Jira. Use company managed projects instead.

Features of Label Manager specific fields that are not supported on Jira native ‘Labels’ field.

  • Activate coloring to use labels as checklists by allowing users to assign issue specific traffic light colors to them.

  • Select 'Customize labels for this project' to manage predefined labels for this project independent from other projects.

  • Allow project admins to manage available label items for their project independent from other projects or Jira administrator’s help.

Label Manager custom fields can be created like Jira native custom fields

  1. As Jira Administrator: Settings → Issues → Custom fields (Side-navigation) → ‘Create custom field’ Button

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  2. Select ‘All’ → Search “Label” → Select “Label Manager for Jira

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  3. Click Next

  4. Enter a Name and Description and click Create

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  5. Optional: Associate the new created field with screens
    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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With Project Labels, we aim to make using labels on your Jira Cloud instance much easier by giving every team member a place to manage the labels used in their project.

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