Label Color

Owned by Wolfgang Landes (Deactivated)
Jun 20, 2022
3 min read

Selecting Label Color Settings

Just like other settings - you can select the ‘Label Color Settings' in the global administrations page for all projects or decide to use projects specific ‘Label Color Settings' in the project administrations page.

 

You can choose between two Label Color Settings Options

  • Label Specific Color

  • Issue Specific Traffic-Light Label Color

 

Option 1: Label Specific Color (default)

  • Label Specific Color is enabled by default.

  • Also new created Label have by default the color ‘grey-light’.

Label specific color means, that just like Epics, label will have a predefined color.

Again you can define that color globally for the label or decide to use your own colors within your project.

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

Once ‘Label Secific Color’ is selected in ‘3. Label Color Settings'. The Action ‘Change Color’ appears in the label rows.

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

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

Option 2: Issue specific Traffic-Light Label Color

Users can select traffic light colors for labels on each issue. This allows to use labels as checklists.

Example:

Label ‘All-Unit-tests-passed’ might be:

  • ‘Green’ on Issue ‘KAN-1’ indicating everything passed

  • ‘Grey’ on Issue ‘KAN-2’ indicating nothing has been done yet

  • ‘Orange’ on Issue ‘KAN-2’ indicating that its ongoing

  • ‘Red’ on Issue ‘KAN-3’ indicating that tests have failed

Currently you need to save your label item selection first and open the ‘Edit Dialog’ again to change the color. We can hopefully change this to a dynamic solution in the future.

Once you already have Label Items selected and you open the ‘Edit Dialog’ you will see each label represented as button below the select field. Clicking on the label changes the color in the following order.

Grey (Default) → Red → Orange → Green → Grey (Default)

As project administrator you can use your Label Manager fields as a checklist or a ToDo list with color support.

Clicking on the magnifying glass ‘🔍’ will redirect you to issue navigator and filter for all issues that share the same label items.