Create a Colored Label Manager custom field
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Managing native Jira labels don’t require creating a Colored Label Manager custom field. |
Features of Colored Label Manager specific fields that are not supported on Jira native ‘Labels’ field.
Activate coloring to labels.
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.
Add a description to your label to make the context more clear to your project users , Jira users can always check to see whether a label already exists before creating it; remember, too, that it might simply be a question of spelling or case variation..
Label Manager custom fields can be created like Jira native custom fields
As Jira Administrator:
Click on Settings
Go to → Issues
Click on Custom fields (Side-navigation)
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Click on Create custom field Button
Select All → Search Label
→ Select Colored Labels
Click Next
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Enter a Name and Description
Click Create
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Optional: Associate the new created field with screens
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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Colored Label Manger (Global Administration)
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Only Jira administrator can access Global Administration |
To access Global Administration
Go to Settings
Click on Apps
Open Colored Labels from the left sidebar
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Label Specific Color (default)
New created Label have by default the color (grey-light).
Label specific color means, that just like Epics, label will have a predefined color globally.
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Colored Label Manager
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Create a Colored Label Manager custom field
Access Apps:
Log in as a Jira Administrator.
Click on Apps in the navigation menu.
Navigate to Colored Label Manager:
Go to → Colored Label Manager.
Click on Colored Label Fields.
Create a New Label Field:
Click on Create Colored Label Field.
Enter a Name and Description for your new label field.
Click Create to finalize.
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To use Colored Label Fields in your project, you must first add them to the relevant screens. This ensures they are visible and accessible when creating or editing issues. |
Newly Created Label-Item :
The Color is light grey By Default.
Label-specific colors can be set globally, similar to Epics.
Users can customize colors within their projects.
Colors can indicate
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priority
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or other meanings within your Jira instance.
You can always change
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a label’s color—just select the
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desired color in the select list .
Already assigned labels on issues will
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update automatically.
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Global Colored Label Management:
This is a list of all the Jira labels used in your Jira instance. In this view, you can manage Global Colored labels :
Create label-Item and add
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them to
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Jira issues
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Add color to labels
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Edit label-Item
Search for specific labels.
Check how many issues
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a label is
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assigned to.
Export labels to CSV.
Edit
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Merge labels
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, merge, or delete one or multiple labels.
Add
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or remove labels from multiple Jira issues.
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Copy a label .
See unused labels
The "Click to see issues" column shows you how many times often a label has been used. Clicking on that link opens a new tab with a filter that shows Click the link to open a filtered view of all issues with that label in your projecta new tab.
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