Hi all, does anyone know of an equivalent feature request for Jira Cloud? And if so could you please share/link with this one? I could only find JSWCLOUD-21694 Allow changing the value for the field Flagged, which seems to be much more recent.

we have the same request and this is 6 years since the original request in this thread. we need a visual way to indicate particular types of impediment, sure we can use a field inside the ticket and maybe change the colour of the ticket, but we already use ticket colour to re-enforce the priority of a ticket because as someone said it is quite weak at attracting our teams attention to it

+1
We have currently the same request for our teams. It would improve their priority management which would be really usefull. 

This feature would very much be appreciated. Atlassian did add the "Add Flag and add Comment" feature to the right click context sensitive menu to the cards on boards, which helps to speed up the flow, but a comment is still unstructured data and we'd like to be able to create dashboards with specific types of impediments (as there are different people tackling different types of impediments)

+1 as well.

I see that JIRA's flagged field appears to allow multiple options:

Has anyone tried adding more than the single "impediment"?

+1 as this would also greatly impact our ability to properly signal items.

+1 for this big time. Would be really great for our team.

Agree flagged field could be improved by adding single select feature that each client configures to track types of blockers or reasons for blockers. This would help not only teams but entire organizations understand where they have the most opportunities for improvements and reduce blocker types. for example. Hope you just do something that 1) keeps the flag visible when someone adds it, but then enables a team to select a reason or type. This aspect should be configurable by the Jira Admin team for each client. Also, this should be editable in the details screen on the right side of the board, so teams don't have to open up the issue type to edit or select the reasons.

+1 - I am looking for this

We have multiple groups which cross projects. There can be bi-directional dependencies. Configurable flags would be helpful in identifying and filtering these issues.
Links are OK, but, not easily seen on the boards.
Example:

• Flag 1 - Group A depends on Group B to finish this
• Flag 2 - Group C depends on Group A to finish this