Labels are free text to all JIRA users so the end result is numerous labels that have meaning to only one user as well as many duplicates (due to misspelling etc..) I saw previous conversation on this in the community but did not see find a resolution by Atlassian - or anyone else.
There's been no change since the discussions you've seen.
Ok thank you!
Hi Donna,
There is no way to restrict the creation of labels, and labels devolving into chaos is a sad reality for some teams. Sadly, Jira also does not provide any UI to manage labels.
Having had similar experiences to those you describe, we finally gave in and developed an app to help us. If you are open to an app-based solution: Read on! Our app, Project Labels, helps team with label usage in two ways:
Finally, if you just want to get an idea of the amount of labels in your instances: This article got you covered; it's a bit technical though.
Hope that helps,Oliver
Full disclosure: I work for Jodocus, the Marketplace Partner behind Project Labels. Let me know if you need any help getting started or have any questions or feedback.
@Oliver Siebenmarck - Do you know of any apps that can do this for Confluence?
We solved the JIRA labels issue - but our team lives in the sad reality of "lable" chaos in confluence which breaks all our links for table of contents. Any help is appreciated.
Hi @Jessica Schmor : Please let me know how did you restrict labels in jira. We are on atlassian cloud.
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