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Project Key Underscore

Mitch Wiemans

Hello,

We are currently experimenting with Project Keys and want to add underscores in them.

We found that this is possible and should be working. However when we add a underscore to a new project, we get the following error:

Project keys must start with an uppercase letter, followed by one or more uppercase alphanumeric characters.

Is there a way to get rid of this and get the underscore to work?

Regards,

Mitch

Accepted answers

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The pattern is regulated by a regular expression in Admin -> General -> Advanced.

But don't change it - there are some "interesting" things (i.e. stuff breaks) that happen when a project key is not the standard. Stick with A-Z as the first character and then A-Z,0-9 for the next 1 to 9.

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Christos Moysiadis

Hi @Mitch Wiemans

my answer doesnt answer your question but...

Just a question! You have the choice of ~24 letters and 0-9 numbers with max 10char key, plus the combinations!

Why you want to make it this way? Why you just not stick to the pattern of the system? I think it saves a lot of troubles later

Best regards

Mitch Wiemans

hi @Christos Moysiadis,

we will be making a project for each country and each type of system.

For example:

Netherlands system named Test using system Test 2 will be:

NL_TEST_TEST2

For out Service Desk this would make a lot of sence

Regards,

Mitch

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The pattern is regulated by a regular expression in Admin -> General -> Advanced.

Christos Moysiadis

It could be made easier as i see. if you want my advice something like that could be possible

For Netherlands as you said:

Country letters as prefix -> NL or DE for Germany

1) For Software : key = NLSOFT or DESOFT

2) For Service D. : key = NLSD or DESD

3) For Business : key = NLB or DEB

how about this ? just an opinion

Regards,

Mitch Wiemans

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

thanks for this answer. Currently this is set to:

([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+)

Is is posible to add the underscores which we want as a extra? What i mean is the following: Is everything between the [] and in front of the + default?

So right now we are able to add projects:

ABC123 AND ABCABC

If this is the case, can we change the setting to:

([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+[A-Z][A-Z0-9-_])

(Added the _)

Mitch Wiemans

Hi Chris,

I like the way you think We had the same exact ideas. However there should be 1 extra tag which is the name. Let's say a car name Volkswagon.

Tag will be: NLVWSOFT (Netherlands, Software, Volkswagon)

We will use this method if the underscore is not posible. But if it is....

NLVWSOFT = Hard to read quick

NL_VW_SOFT = Easy to read quick

Mitch Wiemans

Correction: Can I change it to: ([A-Z][A-Z_0-9]+)

I found it here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/changing-the-project-key-format-938847081.html

But i want to know how big the chance is that we break existing things. We currently do not have a lot of issues and will use the new keys in new projects only.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I'm not great with regex, but I think it's a bit more simple

[A-Z][A-Z0-9]+ will work fine

[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]+ will allow underscores and break some things (Mostly Apps to be fair - you won't have any problems in Jira)

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