Idea TYPES in JPD: Rename "Idea"

[Katrin Erhardt]

Hello,

we would like to use the new Idea TYPES in JPD but for our use case the type "idea" is not suitable. Will there be an option to rename this one?

[Tanguy Crusson · Accepted solution]

Update: it's coming very soon 🙂

[Daniel Lees]

Hi @Tanguy Crusson - I was so excited to see this change live in a new a project I'm working on! When I went to change the "Idea" Type name in an older, project, however, it's not editable 😔. Is this something that's only available to projects created after a certain date?

[Tanguy Crusson]

We're working on it but it's not out there yet !

[Knauel Jens]

@Tanguy Crusson can you give a sneak preview whether we talk about weeks or months? will ist be possible, if I set up a Project today using "idea" to change without having the need to change each individual issue created by then?

[Katrin Erhardt]

Hi @Jet ,

thanks for your reply!

I can change or delete the idea types that I add myself at any time, but the first entry in the list -> “idea”, cannot be changed or deleted. You can see it in the attached screenshot.
When I hover over it no pencil is displayed for editing. This entry is grayed out/disabled for editing/deleting.

The background to my question is that we want to use JPD for our IT portfolio and categorize submitted ideas as "project", "CR" or "procurement". We therefore do not need "idea" as category.

[Tanguy Crusson]

Thanks for the context @Katrin Erhardt - you are correct for now you can't edit the name of that type - it's something we need to improve.

[Thierry Beja]

Hi @Tanguy Crusson ,

This particular issue is also slightly annoying for us.
The first user in our team who opened JPD must have had their Jira set in French, and so now the default type is "idée" whereas we want to have our whole workflow in English.

So sure it works, but it is not clean.

[Tanguy Crusson]

@Thierry Beja that's a bummer! we talked about it with the team and we'll try to make it so you can edit "Ideas" or "Idées" like any other type. It might be a few weeks before that's done though. 

In the meantime, I would suggest working in French. I've been doing this since I was born and I really don't see what the problem is 😂😂😂

[Brandon Moberg]

Hey @Tanguy Crusson do you have an update on this one? This is an issue for our company as well. I didn't see it on the Atlassian PD Roadmap. Thank you!

[Alexis Therier]

Hi, I would also love to change the "idea" default name to something else.
Looking forward to be able to do that soon !

[Jet]

Hi @Katrin Erhardt 

You can rename the idea type to any name you want using custom idea types.

Read more about how to configure that here https://support.atlassian.com/jira-product-discovery/docs/create-and-configure-idea-types/

I'm also curious to hear what you would like to name them?