Enhance your Jira experience with the powerful Color Labels. These labels bring a visual dimension to your Jira issues, allowing you to categorize, prioritize, and differentiate items effortlessly. By assigning vibrant color labels to your issues, you can quickly identify their status, urgency, or any custom attribute you desire. This feature streamlines communication within your team, making it easier to recognize important information at a glance.
Discover a new level of organization and clarity in your Jira workflow with Color Labels.
Field Configuration
Before starting the field configuration, please follow the instructions for creating custom fields
Step 1: Set a name and description
Provide a good name for the new custom field. Make it descriptive, concise, and easy to understand for others who will use it. Avoid using ambiguous or overly technical terms.
Step 2: Configure your custom field
The field allows you to choose from a pre-defined color palette. Easily choose a color, enter a name for the label and press the “+”.
Field view and edit
Related Use Cases
WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First)Calendar fieldJira Service Management (JSM)
Before you can add a custom field for Jira Service Management (JSM) projects, you first need to setup the custom field
Then follow this guide to use the field in the request form or the portal view
JQL expression
${fieldName}.Text: string[]
${fieldName}.Color: string[]
Find further information here https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/find-specific-issues/
Example: a search for all issues with label text “Approved“
"Color Labels.Text" = Approved
Data structure (automation)
To set the value via automation, you need the following object structure
{
"texts": string[],
"colors": string[]
}
Example for a green label with the text “Approved“ and a red one with text “Rejected“.
{
"texts": ["Approved", "Rejected"],
"colors": ["green", "red"]
}
Please note that the order of texts and colors is important! Also you can only choose previously configured text/color combinations .