Oliver Siebenmarck {Polymetis Apps} Community Champion

Hi @CAO Ngoc Tan , The important thing first: No, Jira will not delete any data in your cloud instance without being told to. The article you linked to does not apply to the Cloud version of Jira, but rather the Server version. Which also will not delete any data without being told to. Hope that helps, Oliver P.S. As a…

Hi @Evan Giordanella , Unfortunately, I do not know a way to have a dynamically generated label be part of a template. However, given your particular page structure, I believe you can achieve a similar result using the app Magic Labels. Amongst other features, it allows newly created pages to automatically inherit their…

Hi @Nick Vitovitch On Jira Cloud, we have an app for exactly this scenario called Project Labels. So that's one more reason to migrate to Cloud if you can. On Server, that's a different story though. If you cannot find an appropriate app on the marketplace, you best bet is to either develop a complete app in-house or use…

Hi @Melanie Prange , Welcome to the Community! As was already pointed out, you'll want a transition screen on the transition that closes the issue. You can put your checkbox on that screen and then use a so-called Validator to check whether that checkbox has been ticked. I believe that can even be done with the included…

Hi @Alvin Leroy Steagall , There are multiple options to do this and @KAGITHALA BABU ANVESH already showed you the quickest one without any extra apps. However, if you find that you need to perform this label renaming more often – say because users mis-spell labels or keep reusing the old ones – there is an app that makes…

Welcome @Astrid Sieben !

Hi @michael.oshea.mo2 , I believe you can achieve what you are looking for using a combination of JQL and Jira Expressions. Say, you can select all issues from your backlog using a JQL query like this: project = YOUR_PROJECT and status != DONE You can now use a Jira Expression to aggregate the results from this query. An…

Hi @Jack Howard , As @Mikael Sandberg mentioned, you'll need an app to properly manage labels. In my biased opinion Project Labels is a fantastic option available in the marketplace, but there are certainly others. However, if you just want to get a first overview of what labels are in use in your instance, you can do so…

Hi @Vanessa Becker , In addition to the other answers, there's also the option of using an app. In my biased opinion Project Labels is a terrific app to manage labels, as it allows you to get an overview of all labels used in your instance as well as renaming/removing much more easily than with the bulk approaches outlined…

Hi @Larry Allen , In theory, label suggestions are only shown for labels that are already used on an issue. If no more issues have a certain label, that label will eventually be removed from the suggestions. However, I've found that eventually really is the key here, with some labels sticking around a bit longer than I…

Hi @Liliana Danilova , Welcome to the Community! I believe there's a few different approaches and my answer will certainly be limited to what I have used in the past. Still, I believe the two major ways you can go is to either upgrade to Jira Software Premium or to get an app from the Marketplace. 1. Jira Software Premium…

Hi @Sai Avinash Duddupudi , I guess the easiest way to get to information about Sprint, Epic etc would be to use Jira expressions which have their own endpoint. The way it works is that you post the Issue key and an expression to the endpoint and get a result. Simplest expression could be something like this: issue.sprint…

Hi @Vladimir Virlan I see, thanks for the clarification. I don't think "use strict" is a thing with Jira expressions – even though they look like JavaScript they aren't a 100% the same. So, this produces an error: "use strict" let a = true; a; So does this: "hello" "foo" 5 The reason is, that you can only have one value…

Hi @Vladimir Virlan , The problem really isn't the let keyword, it's that your code does not contain an expression. Let me explain that a bit: Jira expressions are meant to be evaluated to a value, like these values: true 6 "PROJ-12" {'foo': 1, 'bar': 2} Typically the return value of the last expression of an expression's…

TIL I learned about message fields. Thanks @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

Hi @VJ , First of all, welcome to the community! Label fields in Jira are more like tags in other software, they are not intended as headlines or dividers on a screen. Out of the box, Jira does not allow for many (or any) design options on the issue screen, but there are quite a few apps in the Marketplace that may be of…

Hi @Radia Bouraib , I believe you want something like this: new Date(issue.customfield_10057) <= new Date().plusMonths(3) You'll need to create a date object from your customfield with new Date() before you can compare it. The documentation for Jira Expressions is pretty nice, but in my mind nothing beats trying things out…

Hi @Andrew Crawley , As @Mikael Sandberg suggested, the easiest option will be to use a workflow app that includes custom conditions. In my biased opinion Cloud Workflows is a great option, as it supports Jira Expressions as workflow conditions. There are, of course, other apps available. Still, no matter what app you…

Hi @Koceila CHERGUI , Welcome to the community! You will need two things to use Jira Expressions in a Validator in Jira Cloud. First (like @Fabian Lim correctly mentioned) , you need a workflow app that supports Jira Expressions. In my biased opinion Cloud Workflows is the easiest option, although there are also other…

Hi @Robert Ogden There is also a slightly experimental and more techie option using the REST API and Jira Expressions. If you are technically inclined (or have a dev nearby), read on. Using the Analyse Jira expression endpoint you can check the type that an expressions evaluates to. You can also use it to send it a bunch…

Hi @Mel Jensen , In addition to @Bill Sheboy's excellent suggestion, there is also an App that can make this a bit easier. Project Labels is designed to help manage labels on a per project basis and gives you an overview of all labels used in a project. It looks like this: The links are clickable and open a JQL query…

Hi @David Thomas , Welcome to the community! Since you are on Jira Cloud, you have a few different options, ScriptRunner being just one of them. First you can try the Automation feature that's included for free with most Jira Cloud instances (go to Project Settings -> Automation). If you are ok with the automations not…

Hi Donna, There is no way to restrict the creation of labels, and labels devolving into chaos is a sad reality for some teams. Sadly, Jira also does not provide any UI to manage labels. Having had similar experiences to those you describe, we finally gave in and developed an app to help us. If you are open to an app-based…

Hi @gunjan_ahuja, I do not believe you can do that with out-of-the-box Jira Cloud, but it is rather easy to do if you have an app that allows using Jira Expressions in Validators, such as Cloud Workflows. Whatever app you pick, here's the expression you would use: issue.fixVersions.length > 1 Which does nothing more than…

Hi, This can be done using Jira Expressions, but you will need an app that supports custom workflow conditions with Jira Expressions. In my biased opinion Cloud Workflows is a great option, but there are other apps available as well. Once you got your app-of-choice installed, just add a workflow condition that allows Jira…

Hi @Nick Burgess , There absolutely is, and it's pretty easy with Jira Expressions. If you do not have one already, you will need an app that allows you to use custom Jira Expressions as workflow conditions if you want to set this up in a workflow. In my biased opinion Cloud Workflows is a terrific option, but there are…

That's a pretty good idea, thanks!

Hi @Svetlana Knyazhishche , The answer will depend on whether you are on Jira Server/DC or Jira Cloud. In the case of Jira Server/DC, you will definitely need an app that includes a post function to update the label field. There are a bunch of different apps with that feature in the Workflow category of the marketplace. If…

Hi @Fabian Duft , To get the red asterisk, you need to make the field itself required – which would make it required all the time, as you already know. I am not aware of any other way to get the red asterisk displayed; I am pretty sure that it does not work with a validator (unfortunately). Personally, my workaround is to…

Hi @Julia , Welcome to the community! I'm guessing that your company uses Confluence server (as opposed to Confluence Cloud), so my answer is based on that. Using the REST API is the easiest way to programmatically access and work with data in Confluence, so you are on the right track! The best way to get started is – in…