As the title says, how can I manage labels?
Just like delete the labels I don't want by JIRA administration.
Is that the labels can only be deleted in issues?
Thanks!
Yes, you can only "manage labels" via issues. Labels are not intended to be "managed" centrally, they're for users. If you want to use managed lists of words/phrases, then use a multi-select field instead.
There is a way to manage labels if you use the plugin "Label Manager for JIRA" https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/rs.codecentric.label-manager-project/server/overview
You as an Project admin or JIRA Admin can manage which items are available project based.
Hi,
I'm pretty new with Jira..by multi select field so you mean a custom field?
how do I create one...?
thanks!
@Nic Brough [Adaptavist]
Yes - as an admin, go to issues -> custom fields, and click "add". Answer the initial questions about name, starting content (options) and screens, save it and you'll have the field on your issues.
To add/update/de-activate/delete options later go back to admin -> custom fields, and change the config of the field
This should be a feature that admins can use. Scenario: a developer decides to take the time and add "a very long label to any number of issues", since labels are displayed alphabetically, this label can block off the UI and since we can't adjust the width of the issue details while on the sprint screen, this makes for a very unhealthy user experience.
Always an "additional" expense for things that obviously should be part of the core product. It's so frustrating as an Admin to not be able to do things that should just "be".
It's another feature that Atlassian don't see any need to add to the core (nor do most of us frankly).
If you want a managed list of labels, use a multi-select instead.
This looks like a great tool, I hope it come to cloud too.
It should be possible to bulk edit and bulk assign:
Here is an example we suffer from:
Developer A adds the label: widget
Developer B adds the label: Widget
Developer C adds the label: widgets
Developer D add the label: Widgets
Now I have 4 labels which are all the same thing.... I just want to change them all to be widget...
Let me save you time, the answer is always "pay for another plug in" - Atlassian seems to have no desire to make their product actually useful and every desire to pawn the responsibility for their product off on 3rd parties and ensuring you pay as much $$ as possible to use their product.
has anyone had issues with labels not saving? I add a TEST label to an issue and save --> delete the TEST label and save --> go to re'add TEST label and it doesn't show up under recommended labels.
any ideas?
It sounds like it is working as intended. The suggestion list that pops up is a list of labels that are currently in use on issues. If you create a new label on an issue, then remove it, and it isn't used in any other issues, it will not pop up in the suggested list.
@Christien Groff This is a hugely underrated comment and really the simplest way to get around the problem of managing labels. It would be a manual process obviously and would require upkeep, but probably the only way without the plug-in. Thanks for the information.
Nice then simply search the whole project like Michael Fasani for widget, Widget, widgets and Widgets then delete them and do that on a daily base because wrong or stupid labels could be added every second. Delivering an extra Plug In for managing a software which is expensive enough, is very very very sad. You want to get the best out of your product? Then simply dont pay the full price, pay double or triple full price for getting the chance to give colours to your labels! Wow
I think if you need to standardize a "label" or category of some kind, create a custom multi-value field and manage it that way. You will need to update your screens to handle the field, but this would be a much better way to use. It makes it easy to group like issues and report on verse labels that you don't really have central control and can get cluttered.
This misses the mark unless something else has changed. The reason for using the label field instead of a select is that users can add labels.
It just so happens sometimes labels need to be managed and cleaned up.
There is a request created to delete/maintain labels. Please vote for this functionality! https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-33672
Just use bulk edit with an appropriate search. This is why Jira will never have that feature : you can already do it in a very simple way.
And keep in mind : if managing labels in your Jira is time-consuming, maybe you not using it in the right way
Can you describe in detail how to delete a label using your process?
In Jira Cloud:
I haven't used Jira Server in several years so I am not sure if the process is the same.
@Anthony France
Hi Daniel,
In order to fix that problem, you can use our app Label Manager for Jira Cloud
It allows managing labels per project or globally. It gives full control over your labels. You can rename, delete or merge labels. It's currently available for cloud.
Try it out from Marketplace: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221542 and let us know if you face any issues.
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