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Customize visibility of labels in the Backlog view of team-managed projects

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      Hello all,

      Thank you for watching, voting, and commenting on this issue.

      We use this data as well as many other inputs to feed into our prioritisation process. Being able to add labels to the cards in the Backlog view will be something that will be available in Team-managed Projects, although it is not something that we will be focusing on in the next year. We want to share this with you to ensure you can plan out your use of projects within Jira Software effectively.

      In the short-term, we recommend teams use Company-Managed Projects if this is an absolute must for you. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause you.

      Please continue to vote and in particular please continue to add comments on how your team would find value when having labels on the cards in the Backlog. This contextual information about what you are doing and why you are doing it is invaluable for us in providing you with a product that will grow with your needs.

      Thank you,
      Eoin Ryan
      Product Manager

      As an project admin, I would like to be able customized which labels are visible in the backlog view and on the card on the board, so I don't have to misuse epics

       

      In the "old" Jira it was possible to customize cards (https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/customizing-cards-764478020.html). This feature is missing in the next gen projects, please add it!

            [JRACLOUD-87244] Customize visibility of labels in the Backlog view of team-managed projects

            Please amend support for this! Not having this feature in place forces us to misuse the epics tremendously. We desperately need a way of categorising our tickets in our backlog so that they can easily be overviewed. 

            Viktor Bostrand added a comment - Please amend support for this! Not having this feature in place forces us to misuse the epics tremendously. We desperately need a way of categorising our tickets in our backlog so that they can easily be overviewed. 

            Gal Dayan added a comment -

            Hi - I can't express how relevant and needed this feature is!

             

            Gal Dayan added a comment - Hi - I can't express how relevant and needed this feature is!  

            This option should have been OotB. Of course users would want to sort their issues by labels. 

            Mark Northcott added a comment - This option should have been OotB. Of course users would want to sort their issues by labels. 

            We need this feature in team-managed boards!! We use labels heavily in our project and I need a quick and easy way to see that all backlog items have a label!

            Lori Coppola added a comment - We need this feature in team-managed boards!! We use labels heavily in our project and I need a quick and easy way to see that all backlog items have a label!

            It is now possible to show something called "Feauture Flags" in Backlog Views, apparently imported from some other third-party tools . But still not Jira's very own labels? Not understandable at all.

            And please, if you consider showing labels: Show them all.

            Not "LabelA + 3" like in Issues.
            And also: Not with that small scrollbar to scroll one pixel up and down like in Advanced Search. Bad UI.

            Sabine Poehler added a comment - It is now possible to show something called "Feauture Flags" in Backlog Views, apparently imported from some other third-party tools . But still not Jira's very own labels? Not understandable at all. And please, if you consider showing labels: Show them all. Not "LabelA + 3" like in Issues. And also: Not with that small scrollbar to scroll one pixel up and down like in Advanced Search. Bad UI.

            How has this been sitting for this long? Its available in company managed projects. This would be of huge help. Would love to see this get added!

            zach.morgan added a comment - How has this been sitting for this long? Its available in company managed projects. This would be of huge help. Would love to see this get added!

            This is highly requested

            Olivia Lund added a comment - This is highly requested

            Can't wait to see this happen! An update soon would be great!

            Joshua Bertaut added a comment - Can't wait to see this happen! An update soon would be great!

            kent added a comment -

            This is so stupid and embarrasing you havent done it. 

            kent added a comment - This is so stupid and embarrasing you havent done it. 

            +1

            Angela Pagiri added a comment - +1

            I wish Atlassian would stop considering and just do it.

            Adrian von Gegerfelt added a comment - I wish Atlassian would stop considering and just do it.

            Reuben Ahmed added a comment - - edited

            Please add it, doesn't seem like it would be difficult and would provide tremendous value for your users. Can we modify your code and make a PR request?

            Reuben Ahmed added a comment - - edited Please add it, doesn't seem like it would be difficult and would provide tremendous value for your users. Can we modify your code and make a PR request?

            voting for this to be added!! Without this feature, there is a lot of repetitive data that needs to be added to see which tasks are for the clients 

            Julie Ramirez added a comment - voting for this to be added!! Without this feature, there is a lot of repetitive data that needs to be added to see which tasks are for the clients 

            Boris Chevreau added a comment - - edited

            This has been under consideration for over a year? It seems like a basic display setting that exists in company-based projects, and literally renders Labels completely unusable for Next-gen. This should have been in from the start, please implement it asap...

            Boris Chevreau added a comment - - edited This has been under consideration for over a year? It seems like a basic display setting that exists in company-based projects, and literally renders Labels completely unusable for Next-gen. This should have been in from the start, please implement it asap...

            if anything can be added to this: I can filter by type and see the type in the list, can filter by epic and see it in the list, can filter by label but... ouch! can't see the label! Don't even know if tasks have labels unless I open the detailed view.

            Thomas Alisi added a comment - if anything can be added to this: I can filter by type and see the type in the list, can filter by epic and see it in the list, can filter by label but... ouch! can't see the label! Don't even know if tasks have labels unless I open the detailed view.

            I am VERY surprised to find out that this is not implemented. Seems like your sales team is doing fine selling your product without it, but us developers need this!

            Michael Spranger added a comment - I am VERY surprised to find out that this is not implemented. Seems like your sales team is doing fine selling your product without it, but us developers need this!

            Is there any update on this request? The option to show labels on a team-managed project seems like a straightforward & extremely-useful feature.

            Ches Calloway added a comment - Is there any update on this request? The option to show labels on a team-managed project seems like a straightforward & extremely-useful feature.

            + 1 for seeing this one being implemented! 

            Diana Dvorska added a comment - + 1 for seeing this one being implemented! 

            Shereen Barros added a comment - - edited

            Hey - is this ever going to be implemented? Not seeing labels on board or backlog view is really awkward.

            Shereen Barros added a comment - - edited Hey - is this ever going to be implemented? Not seeing labels on board or backlog view is really awkward.

            Added - you'll see how many people are using / requesting Labels above.  +1 from me

            Shaun Jeavons added a comment - Added - you'll see how many people are using / requesting Labels above.  +1 from me

            Shaun Jeavons added a comment - - edited

            Pretty simple - we use Labels to highlight Customers for whom we are developing features.  Having them on the Backlog view saves us having to put this information in brackets which is imperfect and leads to overly complex / long names and we need to see for whom the listed features are being developed 'at a glance' vs. using saved queries or pre-supplied filters.

             

            Seems odd that Labels (along with type, Epic and Versions etc) are supported as quick filters but cannot be displayed on individual items.  Worked well in the classic and it's a non-starter to use Team Managed right now

            Shaun Jeavons added a comment - - edited Pretty simple - we use Labels to highlight Customers for whom we are developing features.  Having them on the Backlog view saves us having to put this information in brackets which is imperfect and leads to overly complex / long names and we need to see for whom the listed features are being developed 'at a glance' vs. using saved queries or pre-supplied filters.   Seems odd that Labels (along with type, Epic and Versions etc) are supported as quick filters but cannot be displayed on individual items.  Worked well in the classic and it's a non-starter to use Team Managed right now

            Eoin added a comment -

            Hello all,

            Thank you for watching, voting, and commenting on this issue.

            We use this data as well as many other inputs to feed into our prioritisation process. Being able to add labels to the cards in the Backlog view will be something that will be available in Team-managed Projects, although it is not something that we will be focusing on in the next year. We want to share this with you to ensure you can plan out your use of projects within Jira Software effectively.

            In the short-term, we recommend teams use Company-Managed Projects if this is an absolute must for you. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause you.

            Please continue to vote and in particular please continue to add comments on how your team would find value when having labels on the cards in the Backlog. This contextual information about what you are doing and why you are doing it is invaluable for us in providing you with a product that will grow with your needs.

            Thank you,
            Eoin Ryan
            Product Manager

            Eoin added a comment - Hello all, Thank you for watching, voting, and commenting on this issue. We use this data as well as many other inputs to feed into our prioritisation process. Being able to add labels to the cards in the Backlog view will be something that will be available in Team-managed Projects, although it is not something that we will be focusing on in the next year. We want to share this with you to ensure you can plan out your use of projects within Jira Software effectively. In the short-term, we recommend teams use Company-Managed Projects if this is an absolute must for you. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause you. Please continue to vote and in particular please continue to add comments on how your team would find value when having labels on the cards in the Backlog. This contextual information about what you are doing and why you are doing it is invaluable for us in providing you with a product that will grow with your needs. Thank you, Eoin Ryan Product Manager

            To use the backlog for ranking and priority we need the ability to categorize the Issues/tasks 

            Tova Rosenblum Shani added a comment - To use the backlog for ranking and priority we need the ability to categorize the Issues/tasks 

            One vote to add this capability - Displaying labels in the backlog list view helps organize issues because it's much easier to scan the issues and group them by label in a list view

            Jon Townsend added a comment - One vote to add this capability - Displaying labels in the backlog list view helps organize issues because it's much easier to scan the issues and group them by label in a list view

            Kim Ostler added a comment -

            +1 Displaying labels in the backlog list view helps organize issues because it's much easier to scan the issues and group them by label in a list view.  

            Kim Ostler added a comment - +1 Displaying labels in the backlog list view helps organize issues because it's much easier to scan the issues and group them by label in a list view.  

            Can't wait to have this feature!

            Jonathan Thompson added a comment - Can't wait to have this feature!

            Yes! I would like to see this added, too.

            Melissa Rosenthal added a comment - Yes! I would like to see this added, too.

            Eileen Ong added a comment - - edited

            +1 we use labels to define planned items for refinement and other purpose. Being able to see the label in backlog view would be super beneficial when we do ranking of the backlog items.

            Eileen Ong added a comment - - edited +1 we use labels to define planned items for refinement and other purpose. Being able to see the label in backlog view would be super beneficial when we do ranking of the backlog items.

            harman added a comment -

            +1

            harman added a comment - +1

            +1 added to Votes 

            Angelika Bukina added a comment - +1 added to Votes 

            Would be great to have this!

            Viktoras Valiokas added a comment - Would be great to have this!

            Would be super helpful.

            Stephanie Didier added a comment - Would be super helpful.

            Carola added a comment -

            +1

            Carola added a comment - +1

            +1

             

            Luke Brandon added a comment - +1  

            Dev Joshua added a comment -

            +1

            Dev Joshua added a comment - +1

            Should be basic functionality. Please add this asap

            Michel van Leeuwen added a comment - Should be basic functionality. Please add this asap

            It's pretty ridiculous that this isn't already a feature and that this has been a request for 4 years. My team has to manually add labels in the title of tickets so we can see them in the backlog view.

            Lewis Hamilton added a comment - It's pretty ridiculous that this isn't already a feature and that this has been a request for 4 years. My team has to manually add labels in the title of tickets so we can see them in the backlog view.

            +1

            +1

            Roel Verdult added a comment - +1

            +1

            +1

             

            Josh Mahoney added a comment - +1  

            Atlassian, I think your feedback form last year shows a misunderstanding. It is not about adding labels to issues in the Backlog, it is just about seeing them.

            Sabine Poehler added a comment - Atlassian, I think your feedback form last year shows a misunderstanding. It is not about adding labels to issues in the Backlog, it is just about seeing them.

            Felix added a comment - - edited

            Jesus Christ Atlassian, when will we get this absolutely essential feature? Created Nov 2018, it's now Mar 2022 and nothing yet? C'mon!

            Felix added a comment - - edited Jesus Christ Atlassian, when will we get this absolutely essential feature? Created Nov 2018, it's now Mar 2022 and nothing yet? C'mon!

            +1 Please do this !!

            Luke Studley added a comment - +1 Please do this !!

            +1

            Melanie COLIN added a comment - +1

            +1

            matias.piipari added a comment - +1

            Just do it please.

            Daniel Whitlock added a comment - Just do it please.

            Yes please! wee really need this

            Kai Amundsen added a comment - Yes please! wee really need this

            Wow. This was created Nov 2018 and it's still under consideration? That's one hell of a lot of time waiting for a feature so many people have backed.

            Deleted Account (Inactive) added a comment - Wow. This was created Nov 2018 and it's still under consideration? That's one hell of a lot of time waiting for a feature so many people have backed.

            +1

            jeremyc added a comment -

            +1...agreed essential.

            jeremyc added a comment - +1...agreed essential.

            +1 essential !

            Sébastien Diard added a comment - +1 essential !

            +1

            AJohnson added a comment -

            +1

            This would be great for showing blocked stories.

            AJohnson added a comment - +1 This would be great for showing blocked stories.

            sam.munro added a comment -

            +1

            sam.munro added a comment - +1

            AskCasmir added a comment -

            +1 a must have imo

            AskCasmir added a comment - +1 a must have imo

            +1 really essential

            Maëlle Le Pape added a comment - +1 really essential

            +1

            Valeri Todorov added a comment - +1

            Adam Neal added a comment -

            +1. Our Dev Teams use labels to denote "READY" and "BLOCKED" items. We currently need to click on each item in the backlog and scroll to view the labels, as opposed to it just showing in the backlog view to understand this at a glance.

            Adam Neal added a comment - +1. Our Dev Teams use labels to denote "READY" and "BLOCKED" items. We currently need to click on each item in the backlog and scroll to view the labels, as opposed to it just showing in the backlog view to understand this at a glance.

            +1

            Big +1

            Rafał Płonka added a comment - Big +1

            +1 essential

            Dominic Callan added a comment - +1 essential

            +1 for this. Would love to see labels on the backlog items!

            Mathew Hoelting added a comment - +1 for this. Would love to see labels on the backlog items!

            This is ridiculous. 

            Alexander Kurnikowski added a comment - This is ridiculous. 

            If there were 3 things that made me wish I picked a Jira Classic Project instead of a Jira Next Gen Project then this would be 1 of them.

            Chris Timmer added a comment - If there were 3 things that made me wish I picked a Jira Classic Project instead of a Jira Next Gen Project then this would be 1 of them.

            +1 for at the minimum visibility of due date

            Caitlin Bathgate added a comment - +1 for at the minimum visibility of due date

            @Frank Van Damme I am not sure if you've seen this issue https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17444. 3 times more votes and still in "Gathering interests", I think Atlassian has its own roadmap, and we need to deal with it.

            Maria Szydłowska added a comment - @Frank Van Damme I am not sure if you've seen this issue https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17444 . 3 times more votes and still in "Gathering interests", I think Atlassian has its own roadmap, and we need to deal with it.

            matt added a comment -

            Any word on this?/?

            matt added a comment - Any word on this?/?

            What kind of crap product is this!? Used Jira Server for many years on previous workplace, no problem to have a good overview in the Backlog view. Now completely useless. Utterly useless. No way to get an overview of what components (lables) an issue is related to. Impossible to do backlog grooming from this. As usual, Atlassian focus on making producs WORSE (sunset Server?)...

            PH Lundblom added a comment - What kind of crap product is this!? Used Jira Server for many years on previous workplace, no problem to have a good overview in the Backlog view. Now completely useless. Utterly useless. No way to get an overview of what components (lables) an issue is related to. Impossible to do backlog grooming from this. As usual, Atlassian focus on making producs WORSE (sunset Server?)...

            427 votes.  How many votes are needed before it gets on the roadmap?

            Frank Van Damme added a comment - 427 votes.  How many votes are needed before it gets on the roadmap?

            I need this too! when will it be ready?

            Jon-James Kirtland added a comment - I need this too! when will it be ready?

            @eion is there any update as to when this is likely to be worked on?

            james.bailey added a comment - @eion is there any update as to when this is likely to be worked on?

            2 years and Jira is not listening, so frustrating

            Carlos Palars added a comment - 2 years and Jira is not listening, so frustrating

            Thought this would be available by now, Jira.

            Joseph Levy added a comment - Thought this would be available by now, Jira.

            Marcel added a comment -

            Labels and a filter for these labels in the backlog would be a great and simple add-on! Labels can be titled to anything what's worth for your business and give so much more control and better insight for Product Owners.
            I hope that our request to Atlassian soon will get a higher priority so vote for this if you agree!

            Marcel added a comment - Labels and a filter for these labels in the backlog would be a great and simple add-on! Labels can be titled to anything what's worth for your business and give so much more control and better insight for Product Owners. I hope that our request to Atlassian soon will get a higher priority so vote for this if you agree!

            We use labels to help with the prioritization of issues so showing the labels on the backlog would really simplify and speed up our prioritization exercises

            danielflippance added a comment - We use labels to help with the prioritization of issues so showing the labels on the backlog would really simplify and speed up our prioritization exercises

            @eoin why tehre are no labels in backlog view?

             

            Andres Kostiv added a comment - @eoin why tehre are no labels in backlog view?  

            I appreciate the update, I wish there are more like this on other tickets. 

            james.bailey added a comment - I appreciate the update, I wish there are more like this on other tickets. 

            sabbott added a comment -

            Same issue - this is a no brainer Jira

            sabbott added a comment - Same issue - this is a no brainer Jira

            Same problem here. This was super useful in older versions. It'd help A LOT if you added it to next-gen projects. Thanks!

             

            David Sanchez Garcia added a comment - Same problem here. This was super useful in older versions. It'd help A LOT if you added it to next-gen projects. Thanks!  

            Kit Riños added a comment -

            Same here

            Kit Riños added a comment - Same here

            Gimhani added a comment - - edited

            It is really important for me to see labels on the backlog view.

            We use labels to mark tickets as "ready for refinement" or "refined". This have been a huge help with older versions of jira. 

            Gimhani added a comment - - edited It is really important for me to see labels on the backlog view. We use labels to mark tickets as "ready for refinement" or "refined". This have been a huge help with older versions of jira. 

            Nurio Fernández added a comment - - edited

            Visualizing labels is something really important for me. Labels can have colors to make them be inclusive better. 🔥 🔥 

            Nurio Fernández added a comment - - edited Visualizing labels is something really important for me. Labels can have colors to make them be inclusive better. 🔥 🔥 

            RC added a comment -

            The Epic panel was re-added to next-gen projects, now bring on the labels! Really inconvenient having to write a separate filter to see the labels.

            We use labels to indicate whether a story is ready for refinement, ready for sprint and so on, which helps us prioritize the backlog.

            RC added a comment - The Epic panel was re-added to next-gen projects, now bring on the labels! Really inconvenient having to write a separate filter to see the labels. We use labels to indicate whether a story is ready for refinement, ready for sprint and so on, which helps us prioritize the backlog.

            Me too, I'd like to see labels on items in backlog view. E.g. Whole team need to see at a glance, in the backlog, which items are client-related / came from support desk. We are misusing epics for this, which doesn't work very well and not how we normally use epics. Colour coding on the labels would be great.

            Alexandra Stewart added a comment - Me too, I'd like to see labels on items in backlog view. E.g. Whole team need to see at a glance, in the backlog, which items are client-related / came from support desk. We are misusing epics for this, which doesn't work very well and not how we normally use epics. Colour coding on the labels would be great.

            we need an ability to display labels in Jira backlog. and similar to this issue - an ability  to show QA contact in a card on a board

            Nazim Ragimov added a comment - we need an ability to display labels in Jira backlog. and similar to this issue - an ability  to show QA contact in a card on a board

            To Clarify this probably for everyone. The backlogs need to show descriptions, epics, versions, labels (Priority or general message), Bug severity. The later is the issues. This is why:

            Bug severity: This is something every backlog needs, which is possible currently but is not set up automatically. You have to change the priority field and customise it. The issue is you can no longer have a clear priority without using the labels, which don't show in the backlog. This is a big issue for Scrum teams managing backlogs.

            Labels: I need them to show on the board (which they do but I'd like a coloured background as well) and in the backlog.

            I'm on cloud Nex-gen.

             

            There really isn't a lot of work involved in doing this and it will make a big difference. 

             

            james.bailey added a comment - To Clarify this probably for everyone. The backlogs need to show descriptions, epics, versions, labels (Priority or general message), Bug severity. The later is the issues. This is why: Bug severity: This is something every backlog needs, which is possible currently but is not set up automatically. You have to change the priority field and customise it. The issue is you can no longer have a clear priority without using the labels, which don't show in the backlog. This is a big issue for Scrum teams managing backlogs. Labels: I need them to show on the board (which they do but I'd like a coloured background as well) and in the backlog. I'm on cloud Nex-gen.   There really isn't a lot of work involved in doing this and it will make a big difference.   

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