Internationalization in workflow statuses

If people around the world, speaking different languages, use your JIRA instance, it is likely that you use internationalization to convert JIRA into their own language. But things like the workflow action name, button name, and so on are configured in the workflow and not as i18n properties. And therefore, they are limited to a single language.

This is where workflow properties come to our rescue, again!

How to do it...

We can modify the workflow action submit button name or the action name using the properties jira.i18n.submit or jira.i18n.title, respectively. The following is the step-by-step procedure:

  1. Identify the i18n file to modify. For the default language, you can find it in the atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/jira/web/action/JiraWebActionSupport.properties ...

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