Hi again,

I suppose we can close this issue since I've found other ways to make the changes wanted.

Instead of renaming "Priority" to "Severity", I changed the options of the existing "Priority" field to "High", "Medium" and "Low".
And I also created a custom field called "Severity" with the options "Severity 1", "Severity 2", "Severity 3", "Severity 4", and "Severity 5".

Regards,

Christian

Christian,

> I extracted language_default.jar in webapp\WEB-INF\lib to \edit-webapp\WEB-INF\classes

Did you leave language_default.jar in webapp\WEB-INF\lib? If so, its values would still be used. Please delete it, delete the tmp\ directory and run build.bat to rebuild/redeploy the webapp.

Cheers,
Jeff

Further investigation reveals that the UndeclaredThrowableException error forementioned is not caused by the new Priority field. Activating a new workflow was the actual cause (sorry for the confusion and please ignore it for this issue)

Christian

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your comment.

About renaming the default Priority field to Severity. I did a search for Priority in all property files I extracted from language_default.jar and found out that only JiraWebActionSupport.properties has instances of Priority.

Below are instances of Priority that I found in JiraWebActionSupport.properties:

1. JIRA concepts
   common.concepts.bypriority = By Priority

#project timetracking report
timetracking.priority = Priority

#version workload report
workload.version.report.priority = Priority

#issue field names
issue.field.priority = Priority

1. issue column headings
   issue.column.heading.priority = Pr

Which all but the last one have been changed to:

common.concepts.bypriority = By Severity

timetracking.priority = Severity

workload.version.report.priority = Severity

issue.field.priority = Severity

issue.column.heading.priority = Pr

I extracted language_default.jar in webapp\WEB-INF\lib to \edit-webapp\WEB-INF\classes
Then I stopped the server and deleted JIRA sub-directory at these locations:
a. "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\webapps"
b. "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\work\Catalina\localhost"
The next thing I did was ran "build.bat" to rebuild JIRA and then I started the server.

My observations:

• JiraWebActionSupport.class in \webapp\WEB-INF\classes\com\atlassian\jira\web\action never changed
• JiraWebActionSupport.properties and JiraWebActionSupport..class in \tmp\build\war\WEB-INF\classes\com\atlassian\jira\web\action were modified.

About the new Priority field, I managed to edit the option list and also set the default option. However now when I create a new issue, JIRA display the following error message:

Form Errors:
Exception: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException

Thanks again for your help,

Christian

Christian,

You should make sure you change all instances of Priority to Severity in all the property files.
Can you also, re-extract your language jar (from the deployed app) file and check that your values are in there.

In regards to the the Priority field, simply create a Select List Custom Field. You will then need to configure it and add your options to it.

Let us know how you go.

Cheers,
Nick

Thanks for your helpful comments, both Neal and Anton.

What we actually want is to have 2 fields; 'Priority' and 'Severity'.

'Severity' field is just JIRA's default 'Priority' field renamed to 'Severity' so it would still have 'Showstopper', 'Major', ' Minor', 'Cosmetic', and 'Suggestion'
I've done what's outlined in http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Customizing+text however after rebuilding (restarting) JIRA, it still says 'Priority'.
What am I doing wrong?

'Priority' field would have 'High', 'Medium' and 'Low'.
I understand that this would involve creating a custom field with three selectable options as above. How do I get the selectable list populated with 'High', 'Medium' and 'Low'?
Would you mind helping me with this one as well?

Thanks again,

Christian

Christian,

To change Priority to Severity you will need to go thorough JIRA's language files and replace Priority with Severity. Some information on this can be found in the following document:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Customizing+text

Please note that until JIRA 3.5 is released only the 'user' part of JIRA's UI uses the language files. In JIRA 3.5 the Administration section of JIRA will also use language files.

Once you have renamed the field, you can then customise the option to High, Medium, Low by navigating to Administration -> Issue Settings -> Priorities.

I will resolve this issue. Please let us know if you have any questions and we will reopen it.

Thanks,
Anton

While you're waiting on Atlassian, you might want to read JRA-886.