Default of System field is not used.

[bjoern]

Hello community,

it was considered the right thing to hide the system field Priority in some projects.
I tried to bring this back, simply by clicking Show in the screen configuration for one of those.

So this has worked, Prio is visible and the scheme used by the Project is the Generic one, with default value Medium.

But when I edit an item, the newly visible Priority field populates with Blocker.
Any thoughts?

Thanks a lot
Björn

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @bjoern 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

As per the documentation:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/manage-priority-schemes/

...the Default Priority value is set only for newly created issues. That default value is not applied when editing issues.

If you need to set existing issues to that Priority value you could do that by filtering for the issues that currently have no Priority value, and using Bulk Change to set the value.

[bjoern]

Had I only waited for your answer instead of trying myself for the past 3hrs (not kidding).

Kudos, Trudy