Change Jira Cloud Project Key

Ryan Vital

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!

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