Editing or Renaming an Epic

In JIRA Agile, an epic is simply an issue of type "Epic", which has a name (e.g. "My Epic") with which other issues can be associated (linked).

You can rename an epic. You can also change the colour of an epic.

Please note:

This page only applies to Scrum boards.
You will need to have the "Edit Issue" permission in the project(s) to which the issue belongs.

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Renaming an epic

To change an epic's name,

Log in to JIRA.
Click the Agile link's down-arrow in the top navigation bar, then select your preferred board from the resulting dropdown menu.
Your board will be displayed. Click Plan.
If the Epic s panel is not shown at the left of the screen, select Tools > Show Epic Panel.
In the Epics panel, hover over the epic you wish to rename, click the drop-down that appears, and select Edit name (see Screenshot 1 below).
Type the new name for your epic, then press Enter.

Screenshot 1: editing an epic

To change an epic's colour,

Log in to JIRA.
Click the Agile link's down-arrow in the top navigation bar, then select your preferred board from the resulting dropdown menu.
Your board will be displayed. Click Plan.
If the Epic s panel is not shown at the left of the screen, select Tools > Show Epic Panel.
In the Epics panel, hover over the epic you wish to rename, click the drop-down that appears, and select a different colour (see Screenshot 1 above).