The label page can be found as a sub page to project settings in the left navigation menu.

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The new item actions can be found on the top right of the page.

Labels tab

Groups tab

With the label tab active, If you click on the "New label" button the Add labels menu will appear.

Color

Choose the color of the new label

Group

Choose the group of the new label (optional)

If your group does not exist yet you can write your desired group in the set label group dropdown and click on create <group name>

You can also make and edit groups in the groups tab.

Label

Choose a label name

Import multiple

Copy a table with up to three columns from Excel.

Each row corresponds to a labels name, group, and color.

Example:

Pasting in the following from excel will result in:

Labels will be separated on "comma" or "newline".

Group names per label will be split on "tab", "colon", "semi-colon" or "pipe".

The labels are written as name:groupname:color.

Labels will be separated on "comma" or "newline".

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Group names per label will be split on "tab", "colon", "semi-colon" or "pipe".
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A third argument may specify a hex color.

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Groups and colors are optional. Set a default to overwrite blank spaces.

Error

If there is an error with a label it will show up as red.

Hover over the label to see what is causing the error.

This could be:

The label already exists in the project.

Label names have to be unique. If a label already exists in the project or if you are trying to add a label twice you will have to rename it.

Creating new groups

If the groups do not exist in the project yet you will be asked if you want to create the appropriate new groups or if you would like to discard them.

Keep open on submit

If you check this checkbox a new add labels menu will be opened right after submitting a label. If you would like to create more than three labels manually through this menu this option will save you time since you will not have to click on the new label button every time. If you are making one or two labels it is just as fast to click the new label button.

With the group tab active, If you click on the "New group" button the Add label group menu will appear.

Label group

Choose a label group name

Keep open on submit

If you check this checkbox a new add label group menu will be opened right after submitting a label group. If you would like to create more than three label groups manually through this menu this option will save you time since you will not have to click on the new label button every time. If you are making one or two label groups it is just as fast to click the new group button.

This is what the search menu can look like on the labels tab

Label groups

Label group name - groupId=<Label group GUID>

Text search

Partial matches of text in label and label groups that are at least 1 characters long give a response.

Text search - search=<Text search>

Text search

Partial matches of text in label and label groups that are at least 1 characters long give a response.

Text search - search=<Text search>

If any label rows are selected in the models table, an info button appears to the right of the search or filter bar.

The info button can look something like this:

Name

With a single label selected, edit the name of the label by clicking on the pencil icon.
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Color

With one or more labels selected, edit the color to update the color of al selected labels at once.

Group

With one or more labels slected, set the label group to update all selected labels to be part of that group.

With a single label group selected, edit the name of a label group by clicking on the pencil.

As soon as a label or label group is created it will show up as a row in the labels or lable group tables.

This is what the labels table in the labels tab can look like:

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After selecting a label or group row selected item actions appear towards the top of the labels or group tables.

This is what the selected item actions menu can look like:

Merge

When two or more label rows are selected the merge action can be used.

If the merge action is used the merge dialogue will open up.

Select which label the other label(s) should be merged into and confirm.

Access required - Administrator

Delete

When the delete action is clicked the delete labels or label groups dialogue opens up.

If any of the selected labels or label groups are applied to an element a warning will be displayed asking you to confirm that you want to delete the label.

Deleted labels cannot be restored.

Some columns in the labels table are enabled by default while others can be hidden and have to be enabled.

Based on the configured column order the first columns are displayed while the table might have to be scrolled sideways to show other enabled columns.

The default order and visibility setting of the columns on the labels table is as follows:

Some columns in the label groups table are enabled by default while others can be hidden and have to be enabled.

Based on the configured column order the first columns are displayed while the table might have to be scrolled sideways to show other enabled columns.

The default order and visibility setting of the columns on the label groups table is as follows: