Labels in backlog view

[Simon Knudsen]

How do I add labels so they are visible in the backlog view?

Below screenshot from guy on youtube who did it somehow.

[David Freitez]

Hi @Simon Knudsen 

I found a community question that refered to this specifically (link), the steps were:

You can follow below steps for labels in backlog view

Go to Backlog view or Board view
Click the three dots in the top right corner
Board Setting/Configuration
Card Layout
In the Backlog section
Change the first dropdown to "Labels"
Click Add
Click Back to Board top right corner

Please follow the instructions and let me know if you you have further questions.

Hopefully this helps you answer your inquiry, if so, please vote for it as the answer to your question.

Kind regards,
David

[Simon Knudsen]

Hi @David Freitez, thanks for your reply. 

I saw that question earlier as well. The problem is I can't find: "Board Setting/Configuration". 

If you have managed to find this, a screenshot would be very helpful. Thanks.

[Izabela França]

Hello @Simon Knudsen ,

In team-managed projects, you can find the "Board settings" here:

Andd for company-managed ones, here:

Note: the feature to add fields to card layouts is only available in company-managed projects.

[Simon Knudsen]

Thanks  @Izabela França ,I appreciate your short and precise answer with screenshots, not links to documentation.

[Trudy Claspill]

@Simon Knudsen 

You asked about advantages to creating a Company managed project versus a Team managed project.

The advantages depend on your perspective.

With Team Managed projects the users in the project's Administrator role have the ability to customize workflows, create custom fields, create custom issue types, and more. The customizations are contained within the project and can't be used by other projects.

With Company Managed projects the project Administrators don't have those permissions. Instead those configuration options are managed by Jira Product Admins. And the configuration options created by those admins can be shared between Company Managed projects.

Team managed projects give teams autonomy to configure the project to suit their needs.

Company managed projects are more advantageous when the organization wants to establish cross-project standards for ways of working.

[Sreenivasaraju P]

Hi @Simon Knudsen ,

You can achieve this by adding Labels field under backlog in the card layout.

Please click on Configure Board --> Under Layout , select Card Layout --> Under backlog section add Label field. 

[Simon Knudsen]

Hi @Sreenivasaraju P , thank you, but I can't find this. Can you show the path you took to get there? 

I recall I created this as "Team", not "Company", if that matters.

[Sreenivasaraju P]

Hi, 
To get configuration option , you should have below permission. 

To configure the board and any of its settings, you must be either:

• a space administrator for the location of the board

• a board administrator for the board itself

more details @
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/configure-a-company-managed-board/

[Simon Knudsen]

I would assume I would be the space administrator and board administrator, since I created the space and the board?

[Sreenivasaraju P]

Hi @Simon Knudsen ,

Sorry, my mistake. 

As per my knowledge we can't configure in team managed project. There is an open ticket with Atlassian.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85694

But you want label field only, it should be achieved as below. as per this document

At the moment, Team-managed projects do not allow users to choose fields to display in the issue cards like the company-managed project card layout.

However, we can enable certain pre-defined fields from the View settings to display in the issue cards of Team-managed projects.

Below are the fields currently supported.

• Issue type
• Issue key
• Epic
• Labels
• Estimate
• Linked issues
• Assignee

[Simon Knudsen]

Are you sure about this? Please guide on how to achieve the label in the backlog (not kanban board).

[Sreenivasaraju P]

Hi @Simon Knudsen ,

Sorry, my mistake. 

As per my knowledge we can't configure in team managed project. There is an open ticket with Atlassian.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85694

But you want label field only, it should be achieved as below. as per this document

At the moment, Team-managed projects do not allow users to choose fields to display in the issue cards like the company-managed project card layout.

However, we can enable certain pre-defined fields from the View settings to display in the issue cards of Team-managed projects.

Below are the fields currently supported.

• Issue type
• Issue key
• Epic
• Labels
• Estimate
• Linked issues
• Assignee

[Simon Knudsen]

Is there any other advantages of creating a company managed project instead of team managed? 

[Sreenivasaraju P]

refer this documentation and choose based on your requirement. 
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/learn-the-basics-of-team-managed-projects/

[Sreenivasaraju P]

Hi, 
To get configuration option , you should have below permission. 

To configure the board and any of its settings, you must be either:

• a space administrator for the location of the board

• a board administrator for the board itself

more details @
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/configure-a-company-managed-board/