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Managing global labels is done via the Apps menu on your Jira Cloud settings. Once the app has been installed, a new menu item called Manage Labels will appear. Click on it to get to the Manage Jira Labels page.

Checking Label Use on Your Jira Instance​

Go to the global Manage Labels in your Jira instance. You should see something like this:

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Colored Label Manager improves your experience using labels in Jira. It provides a simple control panel which allows you add color to your labels and understand where your labels are being used in your Jira instance, as well as powerful functionality to cleanup and organize labels in bulk.

Global Jira labels

1. Click on Apps → Colored Label Manager

2. Manage Global Colored Labels

3. Manage Global Jira Labels

4. Generate Reports based on Jira Labels and Colored Labels

5. Create new Colored Label Fields

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This is a list of all the Jira labels used in your instance. The second 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.

INFO

If a label is used on an issue that you do not have access to, it will not show up here and will not be counted.

Renaming a Jira Label​

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.

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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Dealing with this situation is really easy with Project Labels: Simply rename the unwanted spellings to the spelling you would like to keep.

Deleting a Jira Label​

Deleting a label is just as easy as you would expect. Simply click the trashcan icon next to the label you want to delete:

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You will then be asked to confirm that you want the label deleted. Click Confirm to remove the label from all issues in your current project. Once a label has been deleted, it should no longer be suggested when adding a label.

CAUTION

There is no way to undo this operation. Once a label is gone, it's gone for good.

You can search labels, list them in one place, and find all issues by label.

You can list and administer all labels in Jira system wide affecting all projects.

To do so, go to Jira top navigation and find Manage Labels.

If you are admin or have correct permissions, it should look like below:

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Need to search issues by label to see what in issues a label used? Just click on View filter, and it will show a Jira filter with all the issues under a label.

View all labels in one place (per project)

In order to view all labels and number of issues under a specific label, click on Manage Labels tab on left sidebar in your Jira project.

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Find label usage and search all issues by label

You can sort labels by number of issues or alphabetically and quickly understand how they are used.

To find issues by label, click on view filter link, which will list all issues tagged with this label.

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Search labels and filter issues by label Jira instance.

In this view you can manage Colored and Native 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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