Page Comparison

Create Customfield Type

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  Jira native custom field creation (“Advanced Fields”)

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  Jira native custom field creation (“Advanced Fields”)

Global Admin Overview

• Global Settings Page

• Allows selection of "Label Manager Type custom fields"

  

• Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of global label items for the customfield

• Global Settings Page

• Allows selection of "Label Manager Type custom fields"

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  Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of global label items for the customfield

• Allows Merging of Labels

• Allows Bulk Creation of global label items

Project Settings Page

• Project Settings Page

• Allows "Activation of coloring" inside the project

• Allows "Minimize label field" inside the project

• Allows selection of Label Manager Type custom fields

• Allows overwriting the global label items with project specific

  • Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of project specific label items for the customfield

• Allows mapping of label manager custom field to progress fields in the board

  

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  Project Settings Page

• Allows "Activation of coloring" for specific customfields inside the project

• Allows selection of Label Manager Type custom fields

• Allows overwriting the global label items with project specific

  • Allows Creation, Editing and Deletion of project specific label items for the customfield

  • Allows Merging of project specific Labels

  • Allows Bulk Creation of project specific label items

Display CF as Labels

• Clicking on individual label redirects to issue navigator. Filtering for the individual label selected.

• Clicking on 🔍 redirects to issue navigator. Filtering for all selected labels from the issue.

Coloring

• Allows that clicking on the label in edit view changes the color (Red→  Green→  Orange→  Grey)

• Allows JQL support for colored label

  

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  Allows that clicking on the label in edit view changes the color (Grey → Red→  Orange→ Green)

• Allows JQL support for colored label
  

  

Notes:

• Labels need to be added and saved first in edit view before you can edit colors

• JQL support is limited, (allows to search for color inside customfield but not color of specific values inside customfield)

Minimize label field

• Supported, allows to use the “show more” button that hides additional labels initially.

• Not Supported

JQL Bulk Support

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  Supported

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  Supported

Display support inside Issue navigator table

• No colors or links, only comma seperated list.

REST API

Label Manager REST API

• Getting Labels

• Creating Labels

• Deleting Labels

• Not Supported

Performance

• Recommendation not more than 100.000 Labels per custom field

• 1000 global label items for each customfield

• 1000 project specific label items for each project and for each customfields

Progress Custom Field

• Allows to display the progress of label manager (color) in the board

• Not Supported

Post Function

• Add Label Manager items trough a workflow transition

• Delete Label Manager items trough a workflow transition

• Not Supported (Likely to be supported within 6 months)

• Workaround: Jira Cloud native Jira Automation (Examples)