Renaming JIRA Issues

Question

Is it possible to rename an issue for a given project in JIRA?

For example, if I have a project named equities and I create an issue from the JIRA GUI, the new issue is named something like equities-1.

Could I rename the issue to something like equities_1.0.0?

I am trying to create a release management workflow in JIRA and need to enforce strict naming conventions. Hence, why I need to change the name.

Answer 1

Sorry but you can't.

What you are calling a "name" is indeed a key automatically generated by JIRA : [PROJECT_KEY]-[SEQUENCE_NUMBER].
You can never change it.

For your release management workflow, I think you should try another field :

• "summary" field,
• or why not a brand new custom field,
• or use the "fix_version" field

I hope it helps