Change Jira Cloud Project Key

[R]

Hello!

I have a Jira Cloud free instance and wondering how I would change my Project Key or Issue numbering settings

Say my key is TEST, and new issues are created in this project as TEST-1, TEST-2, etc

Id like to add the year to the key somehow, and change the numbering to this: TEST22-001, TEST22-002, and so on

I found this link (https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/changing-the-project-key-format-938847081.html), and this jira.projectkey.pattern setting seems like exactly what I want to change, but it seems that is not available in the cloud version.

Is there a way change this? or tell Jira to add a variable that pulls from the last two digits of current year? 

Thanks!

[Steven Pila]

Hi @Pramodh M or @Sachin Dhamale , Do you happen to know what is the current project key pattern/regex being used currently in JIRA cloud by default?

Thanks.

[Steven Pila]

Sorry this is a mistake answer post, this is supposed to be a reply but unfortunately, I can't delete it.

[Sachin Dhamale]

@Ryan Vital ,

Welcome to the Community,

In Cloud We cannot set the Project Key Format.

Whenever You create the new project there you can mention the Key as per the current year. like for Test Project you can mention project key as TEST22.  but issue key will be TEST22-1 Not TEST22-001.

If you really want to maintain such kind of value somewhere on issue then you can create custom field to maintain such kind of key for this yo can create Automation Rule which will update that that custom field with the issue key which you are looking for.

Pls Accept the answer if it helps

Thanks,
Sachin

[Steven Pila]

Hi @Sachin Dhamale , do you happen to know what is the current project key pattern/regex being used currently in JIRA cloud by default?

Thanks.

[Pramodh M]

@Ryan Vital 

Welcome to the community 🙂

The Project Key is static and it applies to all the issues in your project

Every Project has Project Settings in the sidebar when you navigate to it.

In the details section of the Project, you can change the Project Key. You need to change it for every year and that's not best practice

For your requirement, you could create a custom field which fills the data like you said using Post Function

Create a update field post function and add the regex to extract the year and issue key to add it to the custom field

With plugins it's bit easy!!

Let me know if you have any queries

Thanks,

Pramodh

[R]

Hi @Pramodh M !

Thanks for the quick answer, so this would be a custom field for the issue right? Wouldnt be the issue/ticket number?

R

[Pramodh M]

Yes Correct @Ryan Vital 

[Steven Pila]

Hi @Pramodh M , do you happen to know what is the current project key pattern/regex being used currently in JIRA cloud by default?

Thanks.