in jira 4.2.2 inheritance worked with the same fields and values using create and link option. We are curently preparing tu upgrade to jira 4.4.5 and inheritance is not working and showing error on the issue creation page:
Invalid value '2-High' passed for customfield 'Severity'. Allowed values are: 10036[1-Critical], 10037[2-High], 10038[3-Low], -1