Priority field per project

Whip Hubley October 29, 2013

Is it possible to define a unique set of priorities per project ?

Or are any changes to priorities global across all projects ?

Thanks.

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Peter Van de Voorde
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October 30, 2013

Hi Whip,

You could always create custom single select lists for each of your projects and use those to indicate the project custom priority. You could even combine this with the current Jira priority field to have both a global priority and a project priority.

Best regards,

Peter

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Mike Reaves July 6, 2017

As others have noted, changes to the Prioirites field is global across all projects.  

The best workaround I have is to create a Custom Field.  Make it a single-select field (like Priority) and name it "[project] Priority" - use the name of your project.  Add the priority names you want and then set an appropriate default value (or it won't show up in existing tickets).  You then have to add this Custom Field to a custom Screen Scheme and associate that custom Screen Scheme with your project.  

You can move the custom field to where you want it by configuring the custom Screen Scheme (configure project --> Fields --> click on the Screen Scheme in question).  You can drag and drop it to where you want it to go.

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Contact _Develocenter_ August 28, 2016

Hi Whip,

you can also try Extended Schemes for JIRA. It allows to configure individual list of priorities for Project & Issue Type pair. It also provides individual configurations for Resolution and Link Types.

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John Bishop
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October 30, 2013

Atlassian is planning on making Project specific priorities available sometime: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-3821

There's a couple different workarounds that you could try:

1. Add all possible priorities to the priority field. Then add some javascript to your announcement banner to hide all priorities which are not valid for the issue the user is currently viewing.

2. Create a separate priority select list custom field for each project. Then create a listener which will update Jira's Priority field with the value in your custom field.

Ronny Løvtangen November 29, 2017

JRA-3821 has been implemented as of version 7.6.0.Server

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Marc J. Miller September 20, 2017

As of September 2017, Atlassian has said this suggestion is being planned for an upcoming release.  (see https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-3821)

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Paul Hardaker July 19, 2017

I use workflow post functions to do this, works fine for my use case.

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Whip Hubley October 30, 2013

Thanks for the responses - all are helpful.

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Bharadwaj Jannu
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October 30, 2013

Priorities per Project and Resolutions per Issue Type is an issue from long back. you can check https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-3821 and vote for the issue.

Also some work-arounds are mentioned on velocity files of priority and resolutions.

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Andrey Markelov
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October 30, 2013

You can try to use: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ru.mail.jira.plugins.uniqueregexfield

This Add-On provides unique value fields by JQL.

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Joe Pitt
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October 29, 2013

No, it is one of the universal fields like Resolution.

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