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Deleting label value from archived issue

John Bradley

Hello,

When a Jira user creates a new issue, the Label field has a select of recent labels. One of them has absolutely no meaning and we would like to delete/remove it from the select list. We believe this label value is assigned to an archived issue.

Is there a way to do this, or possible retrieve an archived issue where the label matches the one we want to delete?

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help,

John

Accepted answers

Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM

Hi @John Bradley

This was answered well a while back. The short answer is you can use bulk edit to remove the label from issues with it and then wait for it to disappear from the suggested label list.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-remove-a-label-from-the-recent-labels-list/qaq-p/1814436

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Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM

Hi @John Bradley

This was answered well a while back. The short answer is you can use bulk edit to remove the label from issues with it and then wait for it to disappear from the suggested label list.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-remove-a-label-from-the-recent-labels-list/qaq-p/1814436

Trudy P Claspill

Adding to this...

The key is that if the project is Archived issues in it will not be returned in issue searches. Additionally you cannot edit issues in Archived projects.

So, if you suspect that the label is used in issues in Archived projects you will have to Restore the project in order to search for issues with that label and to edit the issues to remove the label.

Even using the API you cannot retrieve Archived project issues with an issue search.

The only way to view the data in an issue in an Archived project is to use the URL that directly displays that one issue.

John Bradley

Thank you for this, unfortunately I have no idea what the project is. I was hoping I could somehow find the archived projects and restore it, I can only assume it was a project that was archived before my time.

I'll just have to deal with the label list having that one blemish. Personally, I think it's almost impossible to maintain a clean label list since you can type whatever you want in the field, but my CIO asked me to look into it.

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @John Bradley

If the project has been archived using the native Jira Project Archive feature then an admin with sufficient permission can see the full list of archived projects and restore any of them at any time. For more information about archiving projects and restoring archived projects refer to

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/archive-a-project/

Archiving projects with the native feature doesn't remove the projects from the system. It just "hides" them from non-Admins.

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