Labels

Create, rename, and remove workspace labels, and how labels are applied to and filtered on tickets.

Written for
admin, user
Roles
owner, admin, member
Requires
Owner or Admin to manage labels; Permission to edit a ticket to apply them
Feature
workflow

Labels are the only free-form tag in SAQ: workspace-defined words that a ticket can carry many of, such as security, q4, or waiting-for-customer. They are defined once for the whole workspace under Settings → Workspace → Labels and applied on the ticket page. SAQ has no custom fields; labels are the way to mark tickets across projects.

Before you start

  • To add, rename, or remove labels you need the Owner or Admin role.
  • To put a label on a ticket you need to be allowed to edit that ticket: an owner or admin, any workspace user on an Inbox ticket, or a member of the ticket's project. Labels sent by regular client users are ignored.

Manage labels

  1. Open Settings → Workspace → Labels.
  2. Type a Name and select Add label.
  3. To rename, edit the name in place; the change applies everywhere the label is shown.
  4. To remove, select Remove and confirm. The label is removed from every ticket that carries it.

Rules

  • Names are 1–60 characters and unique within the workspace ("A label with this name exists.").
  • Renaming keeps the label on every ticket; only the text changes.
  • Removing is immediate and cannot be undone. Tickets keep no trace of a removed label.
  • Labels are workspace-wide. There are no per-project labels.

Apply and filter

On a ticket, labels are chips in the details rail; add or remove them there. In the ticket list and on boards, the Label filter narrows the view to tickets carrying a label, and it combines with the other filters (state, project, assignee, and so on). Integrations filter with the labelIds parameter and the MCP search_tickets tool. See Find tickets.

Common problems

I removed a label by mistake. Add it again with the same name and re-apply it; the removal cannot be reversed.

A member cannot add a label to a ticket. They are not a member of the ticket's project. Add them to the project or ask a project member to do it.