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

[Brian Cohen]

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?

[Justin Shapiro · Accepted solution]

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

[Nancy Belser]

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.

[JamieA]

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.

[Brian Cohen]

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.

[Jo-Anne MacLeod]

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

[JamieA]

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.