Predefined labels

Question

Hi all,

I am new to the JIRA Atlassian world, and I am trying to configure it for my team. I would like to define a set of labels so that, when an issue is created, only the predefined labels are shown as options. Is it possible to do it with Jira?

Hartmut Leister · Answer

Although this question is already aged a bit, this might help future readers.

You could go with components:

* They're predefined (by the project admin)
* You can assign none, one or multiple components
* You could still use freetext labels
(or remove the field @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- suggested)

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

That breaks the whole point of the labels field.

If you want to do this, remove the labels field from your project(s) and create a new multi-select custom field to replace it.  Those have predefined lists of options.