As a JIRA administrator, I've noticed that labels can get "messy". In particular, there is often variations of the same thing. I would like to be able to consolidate labels that are synonymous and bulk rename the variants, but I don't want the "Last Updated" information to change.
For example, let's say there's a bunch of issues dealing with the "trunk area" of a car. Fortunately, your team is culturally diverse, so you've got blokes who label that part of the car a "Boot". Other folks label it "Trunk" and yet another makes the perfect label: "automobile-luggage-compartment" So I'd like to rename all of these to "trunk".
I could reopen, re-label, re-close each issue, but this would be time consuming and would distort activity timestamps. Is there a plugin for this? A great name would be "Label Manager" or something even more clever. I've searched without success.
I have access to the SQL database, but I don't really want to hack around in there!
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I'm accepting Andrew Culver's Label bot [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ca.uwo.jira.plugins.labelbot] as a workaround for now, and in the meantime I have voted for the feature request https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-26128
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This is the best option available today. Thank you so much for this, its super easy to use too!
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I see three ways:
I would recommend one of the ideas in 2.
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Hi Kim, thanks for your input :)
I would have to go with an option that doesn't update the activity stream or send emails, since the changes are not really "current"; it is purely for ease of classification and doesn't have anything to do with the status of the issues.
I have downloaded Andrew Culver's Label bot [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ca.uwo.jira.plugins.labelbot] but I haven't used it yet. I would need to be able to add labels as well, so a UI to see the issue is important.
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I sympathise. I actually do most of the labeling myself for all my projects as I like things to be named the same. Trunk vs Boot vs Rear-compartment would also drive me to drink. I have also tried to implement naming conventions to keep the labeling neat and tidy. The developers use it most of the time.
I have at least three labels for my issues on certain projects. The problem with bulk changing them is that if you have other labels on the issues they will be replaced by what you put in the bulk editor.
You are also able to uncheck the box that sends mails to user in the bulk edit confirm screen.
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