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Can I change "Assignee" and "Reporter" to be terms of my own choosing?

Can I change "Assignee" and "Reporter" to be terms of my own choosing?

Our legacy system had the Jira equivalent of "Assignee" to be "Engineer", and "Reporter" to be "Submitter".

Can I change these values in Jira through a properties file setting?

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Think hard before doing it. It's not fun maintaining language files for the life of the installation.

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Agreed. I wish I had fought this battle harder before I gave in and renamed "affects version". Now I have to make this change with every upgrade. Bleh.

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Yeah... also take into account a lot of the online documentation won't make sense to the users. In fact, just say no. People will get used to the jira way in no time at all.

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Interestingly, before jumping back into this thread, I was diving into instructions above...yuck. I had already convinced myself this was one customization I was not going to do, and there comment confirm my instinct. Thanks.

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yes, see the following link. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA042/Customizing+text

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Yes, you can change the "issue.field.reporter" etc property in the language file... have a look at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Translating+JIRA for details of how to do it.

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