Managing issue fields in your organization

You can create and manage custom issue fields to collect structured metadata across all issues in your organization.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners can create and manage issue fields.

In this article

Issue fields let you add structured metadata to issues across your organization. Instead of relying on labels or free-text workarounds, you can create fields like priority, effort, impact, or any custom category your team needs. Fields are defined at the organization level and apply across all repositories in your organization.

About issue field types

You can create up to 25 issue fields per organization. The following field types are available: