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Can I opt to use Epic Name not Epic Summary

Kerrie_48rnvw

Atlassian have done it again - rolled out a stupid update and as far as I can tell there is no way to opt out or choose which Epic field to use in the Epic labels

My team are now confused and spending far too much time trying to find the right Epics

I can't seem to find any news or information about this and no option to use the shorter Epic Name in labels rather than the longer Epic Summary (seriously where do they get these ideas!) Is there an option or do I have to go and change the Summary of all of my Epics?

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Mikael Sandberg

You can read about the change in this article, Upcoming changes to epic fields in company-managed projects and these changes started rolling out in March.

There is no option to select if you want to use epic name or the summary field, since epic name will eventually go away. What you can do is create an automation that copies the epic name to the summary in order to fix it.

Kerrie_48rnvw

I did come across that article in my search but given that it is over a year old and last updated 9 months ago it is unclear what applies to this weeks change

I am sorry but we should not have to go to the effort of creating an automation to adjust to a change they have rolled out. I don't see any mention in that article of Epic name being completely removed, in fact it states 'The existing Epic name field will remain available, but will be optional when creating a new epic.'

I would rather see Atlassian deal with the numerous bugs that I have to work around on a daily basis rather than role out these inconvenient unnecessary changes

Trudy P Claspill

The roll out was also listed in the weekly release blogs here

https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/blog/2023/04/atlassian-cloud-changes-mar-27-to-apr-3-2023

Brett Henderson_uqpktw

I'm with Kerrie on this one. There are so many work arounds and this seems like a feature no one asked for. I include the Epic on the tickets on the board and instead of a nice simple label, I've a long (truncated) sentence.

To have to go through the process of manually changing all my epics descriptions to the original short name (whether manually or automated) is to be honest a complete waste of my time. If this is the move Atlassian wants to make, then at least give me the option when it was enabled to automatically do the change.

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