Labels bug from 4th April 2025

Hello,

from the beginning of April I have issue with custom field type = labels.

First automation add label to this field, and second automation has set delay (10 seconds), and after that creates subtasks. But from beginning of april there is a problem that if I put label to the custom field (manually or by automation), it doesn't write down the label to the field immediately, and I need to do some refresh issue website to save the label.

Example: field type labels is empty -> I put label "abc" .. and this label immediately disappears, and I need to refresh the page to see this added label visible in field.

But problem is that my automation is created as:

trigger when value changes for custom field type label (value added for all issue operations)

then wait 15s

then issue field condition: when value in custom field = ABC

then create subtask.

The trigger works, but problem is that (log): The following issues did not match the condition

But it is not true, because trigger is "value added" and the condition is "value = ABC". And both conditions have been met.:( It worked well untill the beginning of april.

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Hi @Veronika Kosová -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

For a question like this, context is important for the community to help. Please post the following:

what type of project is this: company-managed, team-managed, JPD, etc.
an image of your complete automation rule in a single image for continuity
images of any relevant actions / conditions / branches
an image of the audit log details showing the rule execution
explain what is not working as expected and why you believe that to be the case

Until we see those...

I hypothesize the problem is in the condition type / syntax used. Seeing all the details of your rule will help to validate that.

Kind regards,
Bill

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Hello @Bill Sheboy thank you for reply.

Project is company managed.

Issue:

Automation:

Automation audit log:

And what's my problem:) The field "automation" was empty. I added value (screen 1), so the automation was trigered. But after 2 min waiting (I putted delay because I thought that may help), the automation result is that "the following issues did not match the condition". But it doesn't make any sense :( And this automation worked well several months (without any change), but from the beginning of April 2025 (4.4. it seems) I have this issue. The field is filled, but automation react like it is not filled. That's why I added the delay part, but it doesn't work anyway.

Thank you for help

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Thank you for that information, and...I just recreated the symptom you are seeing with a test rule for this scenario:

GIVEN a Jira project
AND a global / company-managed custom labels field is added to the project scope
AND there is an automation rule with a Field Value Changed trigger for that custom field
WHEN a label value is add to the issue's field
THEN the issue-updated event fires and can start the automation rule before the label data is available to the issue

Essentially, this is timing / racetrack error. The exact same thing happens with the Issue Created trigger (although it is much worse in impact). I hypothesize the extra processing for a labels-type field is causing this symptom; that is, the label is added to the all-possible labels list first and then it is added to the issue, resulting in latency.

The fix / mitigation is to add the Re-fetch Issue action immediately after that trigger (and then you may remove the Delay action). This will slow the rule a bit AND reload the data before the rule proceeds.

Finally, I recommend working with your Jira Site Admin to submit this as a defect to Atlassian Support. The reason is the Field Value Changed trigger is quite commonly used and people probably do not expect it to have this timing problem.

https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

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Hello @Bill Sheboy thank you very much for your help.

Just for info:

I hypothesize the extra processing for a labels-type field is causing this symptom; that is, the label is added to the all-possible labels list first and then it is added to the issue, resulting in latency.

-> I don't think so, because I'm re-using the same label all the time (by default used by previous automation). So it's not about creating new labels.

I'll report the bug to Atlassian support.

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