Create 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:

1. Click on Settings

2. Go to → Issues

3. Click on Custom fields (Side-navigation)

4. Click on Create custom field Button 

5. Select All → Search Label

6. → Select Colored Labels

7. Click Next

8. Enter a Name and Description

9. Click Create

10. Optional: Associate the new created field with screens

11. 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.
    

Colored Label Manger (Global Administration)

To access Global Administration

1. Go to Settings

2. Click on Apps

3. Open Colored Labels from the left sidebar

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.

Users can use their own colors within their projects.

Colors can indicate labels with higher priority, or whatever you like those colors to mean within your Jira instance.

You can always change the label color.

Just select the color you like the label to have. We will likely add more colors in the future.

Already assigned labels on issues will get the color updated based on selection.

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