Standardize the priority types on Jira

[HQRAZAHS]

Hello,

I am configuring Jira board for one of the team-managed projects. I see multiple priority types which looks unnecessary. I want to remove them and just keep standard priorities like Critical, High, Medium, Low, Blocker. How to do that? Can anyone help please.

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @HQRAZAHS 

I hate to contradict @Marc - Devoteam , but you don't need a Company Managed project to use a Priority Scheme.

A Jira Admin can create the Priority Scheme with the priorities that are relevant for your project. The Jira Admin can also associate that Priority Scheme with a Team Managed project.

Here are screen images demonstrating that I have done so in my Jira environment.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Trudy Claspill 

Never to old to learn :).

[HQRAZAHS]

Thanks for checking and advising on this @Trudy Claspill . However, I don't see any priority setup page in my project. Sharing the screenshot of what I see so that you have a better visibility. 

I went to My Project>>Issue Types>>Task. There the priority shows (but don't see any settings/setup option there or anywhere). Please help.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @HQRAZAHS 

In Jira Administration, go to the Work Items section, then to the Priority schemes.

Here you will see all the schemes, besides a scheme you see the assigned project, on the option to Add projects.

Select the optin add projects next to your scheme and find your project to associate.

[Trudy Claspill]

@HQRAZAHS 

@Marc - Devoteam is correct. You associate the Priority Scheme to the project from the Priority Schemes page.

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @HQRAZAHS 

Then you need to setup a company managed project here you can define a priority scheme, whit only the priorities you want to use in the project.

It can be done on a Team managed project, but you will need to create a custom field and remove the default priority field from the work items.

From the project settings, select the Issue Type you want to add the field to

Then, on the right, create a new custom field and call it Priority. Then, you can come up with your own priorities instead, which are specific to this project.

Note: you will miss the priority icons when using a custom field for priority

[HQRAZAHS]

Thanks for your response. Can I migrate from team-managed to company managed with all my content (like issues created, confluence configured etc.) copied in the later?

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @HQRAZAHS 

Here is the documentation migrating migrate-between-team-managed-and-company-managed-projects