Set Issue Name according to the issue type in Projects

[Federico Varchavsky]

Hello,

Currently when creating a new issue the name is something like this PROJECT-##. (project name - issue number).

I'd like to have the naming be different.

In this format:

For epics:

EPIC-##

For User Stories:

US-##

For Tasks:

TASK-##

You get the picture hehehe.

Is it possible to have this done?

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Federico Varchavsky,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

The short answer is no, all issues within a project will always have the same project key, there is no way around that. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, there's no way to change the issue key pattern, it has to be <project key>-<sequence>

[David Fischer]

Hi @Federico Varchavsky 

Are you trying to set the issue key or the issue summary?

[Federico Varchavsky]

Hi David, thanks for you question about this.

The idea here is to try to easily see that an Issue is a Task, a US or a sub-task.

Currently, everything is named:

PROJECT_ALPHA-23

PROJECT_ALPHA-24

PROJECT_ALPHA-25

I'd like to have it named something like:

EPIC-23

SUB-TASK-24

US-25

Depending on the Issue type.

[David Fischer]

That did not really answer my question but I’ll assume you mean issue keys (there is no notion of issue names in Jira). Then the other answers are correct. 

[Federico Varchavsky]

That's correct David.

Thank you for your prompt response.

I wasn't familiar with the concepts.

Key then is the "name" which is always derived from the Project's name.

So in my example: Project called PROJECT-ALPHA... key (i.e. name per se) would always be PROJECT-ALPHA-## (## being ascending numbers).

The answer stands then. The "key" would always be PROJECT-##.

No way around it.

Thanks a lot!

Really helpful comments to try to organize everything in Jira.

[Federico Varchavsky]

Thank you for your prompt responses!

Would it be possible to add something to that pattern?

I'd like to have an easy way to see that an issue is an EPIC not a sub-task for example.

And everything named PROJECT-## kind of makes that difficult. Or, at least, more difficult than seeing PROJECT-EPIC-## or PROJECT-##-EPIC / PROJECT-##-TASK.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, the whole code-base of Jira, and the thousands of apps for it, all work on <project>-<sequence>

If you want to see the type of an issue (Epic vs sub-task), include the issue type in your reporting.  The main thing an issue-type is for is the configuration of how an issue works, but the close second place is for reporting.