Epic Colours

Question

I am trying to add colour section to my Epics, to quickly distinguish the difference - and lets face it, the colours look pretty on the board :)

I have another board where the section to change the Epic colour does come up when creating a new epic, when I select Epic as the issue type.

I am working on another board where I am the admin as well, and I want to have the option to colour the Epics on this board as well, but I cannot add it in the custom fields section and not sure how to add in the colour section?

I have compared the two boards' settings to see if i am missing anything but they look the same to me.

Any help would be appreciated to be able to colour code the Epics on my board please!

Sara Quintana · Answer

Hi @Walter Buggenhout ,

I found this question and I'm currently having the same issue. I was wondering if you could confirm my suspicions on this.

I have a board migrated from Trello as a team-managed business project, and I'm trying to crear epics to mimic Trello's labels (color coded) that are now Jira Issue labels (all grey). And I was using Epics for it, as recommended on somewhere.

When editing the epic, I cannot find the color box you are showing on your screenshot. I could though, in a team-managed software project I created for a different team.

Is color coding only available on Epic Issue types for software projects types?

Thanks in advance!

Azandè Caldicott · Answer

Hi @Walter Buggenhout ,

Thank you so much for your response!

The board that was created was a Project Management board - do you know if there is a way for me to assign colours to Epics in that board? This is a Team Managed board.

Walter Buggenhout · Answer

Hi @Azandè Caldicott and welcome to the Community!

There's quite a few different product (Jira Software, Jira Work Management, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery) and project (Company Managed, Team Managed) types in Jira, all having their own peculiarities when it comes to settings.

Since Epics are essentially a part of Jira Software, let me try to zoom in on Jira Software here and explain the difference of how to color epics in company managed vs team managed projects.

In both cases, it may be useful to start from the Epics panel in the backlog view of your board. In Company managed projects, just select the coloured triangle next to your epic in the Epic panel and change the colour right there:

In team managed projects, just open the Epic itself and on the view issue screen, click the colour box next to the Epic title at the top of the issue. You can select a different colour right there:

Hope this helps!