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Manage Jira native ‘Labels’ field globally

Rename, Merge, Delete label items inside Jira native ‘Labels’ field globally.

Updates influence issues globally

Manage Jira native ‘Labels’ field project specific

Rename, Merge, Delete label items inside Jira native ‘Labels’ field that are used inside a specific project.

Updates only influence issues inside the project

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"

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• 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

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• 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

• No support to maintain label switching back from project specific to global configuration

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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

• Supports maintaining selected label that also exist in global config while switching back from project specific config to global config

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

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• 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
  

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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)

Disable labels

Label Manager Labels can be disabled in the global or project-specific settings.

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Disabled labels cannot be added to Issues, but remain selected until they removed from a label.

Minimize label field

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

• Not Supported

JQL Bulk Support

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  Supported

Display support inside Issue navigator table

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• 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

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• 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)