Is there a priority field in the product discovery project?

[Xiaoying Wang]

I want to add priority to the product ideas in the Jira Product Discovery project. However, I don't see it on the system default list. When I search for the field, it showed me that no fields to show. 

But when I tried to add it as a custom field, it told me that there is a field with the same name already exists in the project.

Do you know why this happened and how can I add the priority field to the product idea?

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Xiaoying Wang and welcome to the Community!

There isn't. JPD is built on the foundations of team managed projects (these projects have their own fields) and uses a different prioritisation system (based on e.g. effort, impact, insights, votes, formula fields). 

The error you get when creating the field does not look very nice - my guess is because Priority is a system field in Jira. This looks like a bug (you can't add the field to your project but can't create one with the same name).

As a workaround, you could just give the field a different name (JPD Priority, Prio, ...)

Hope this helps!

[Denis Paul]

For me the whole point of JPD is to define parameters that make up the priorisation. For example using the RICE framework (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort). Then you can create a weighted score to have the priorisation as a result. This is described well in the Atlassian Product Discovery Handbook.

But of course you can just use your own simple field - if that fits your workflow better.