how to create a labels for a project?

[Sekhar Chandra]

Hi,

I want to know about the process of - how to create some labels for a project and associate it to that project and then adding these labels to the issues of that project?

And please help me this thing in cloud also.

Thanks in advance.

[Tarun Sapra]

Hello @Sekhar Chandra 

Labels are global in Jira and not project specific. But you can create a custom field of type *Label* and add that custom field to the project context in the context configuration of the custom field.

[Tarun Sapra]

Also, you can name the custom field of type whatever that suits your project needs.

[Jack Brickey]

I agree with the use of a separate custom field I would avoid using "Label" as it might get confused w/ Labels later. 

With Labels default filed you add new labels simply by entering them into any issue in any project. A space will indicate a new label so you can enter several at once, e.g. label-1 label-2 label-3.

The advantage of a custom field as Tarun mentions is that you can a) restrict to a project and b) control the available values. You can make this a single or mult-select field.

The thing I don't like about labels is that it is free text and there are misplngs. :-)

[Benjamin Peikes]

The issue is that the multi-select field UI is terrible. There should be an option for the multi-select field to have a "label" like interface.