Defining a Severity Definition based on Single Select List

Question

I have custom fields for Severity (Select List Single Choice) and Severity Definition (Text Field Multi-Line).

The values in the Severity select list are:

* Blocker
* Critical 
* Major
* Minor
* Cosmetic

I would like the Severity Definition field to  be populated with a definition appropriate to value selected from the list.

i.e.  If I select the Severity 'Blocker' the Severity Definition field will be populated with the text "This bug is preventing any further testing....."

If I select the Severity of 'Critical', the Severity Definition field will be populated with the text  "Bugs causing a severe operational impact for which no acceptable workaround is available"

etc., etc.

Is this possible to do without having to purchase a plugin?

Thanks.

miikhy · Answer

Yeah, plus javascript might not be reliable after upgrades and depending on the browser :(  Still, it's a workaround.

If you want to explore it, that might be put in the Announcement banner and then, you'll have to find a way to do it haha

Best luck!

Clive Patrick · Answer

Ah, right.  See what you mean.  They would need to be quite long so don;'t think that would work too well.

I thought I read somewhere there maybe a way of doing this by adding javascript to the Description field of the custom field, but not sure how to do this (i'm not a developer, so have limited experience with javascript).

Cheers.

miikhy · Answer

Hi!

It's not the perfect solution but you could have your severity dropdown with values like:

* Blocker - Breaking main features or Known security issues
* Critical - Description goes here
* Major...
* ..
* ..

That would, that way, be displayed to end user but if your description is quite long, that won't work well, at least aesthetically!

Cheers