Global Colored Labels

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Last updated: Nov 10, 2024
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Create a Colored Label Manager custom field

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.

  • Allow your team 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 ,Your team 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..

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

As Jira Administrator:

  1. As Jira Administrator:

    1. Click on Apps

    2. Go to → Colored Labels

    3. Click on Colored Label Fields

    4. Click on Create Colored Label Field

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    1. Enter a Name and Description

    2. Click Create

      

In order to use label fields in Software project you should add them to the appropriate screens.

 

 

To check which software type project (Company-managed or Team-managed) you need help with, look at the bottom of your project’s left-hand sidebar: If you see an icon stating You’re in a team-managed project and Learn more menu items, you're in a team-managed project:

 

 

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  • Select Project settings > Issue types > Search and add you colored label field

If you don't, you're in a company-managed project.

  • Select Project settings > Issues > Layout > Edit Issue Layout > Search and add your colored label field

 

 

 

You should see something like this:

 

 

 

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 Global Colored 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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