Issue priorities are used globally in Jira, so all projects will have the same set of priority options, although this is a limitations that has caused inconveniences when certain projects need to have their own set of priority options. Atlassian has addressed this in recent Jira updates to the software so that the priority scheme feature is included.

Priority schemes work in a similar way to the issue type scheme feature we looked at earlier. You can create a scheme so that it contains only the issue priorities you need and then apply the scheme to a project. This way, each project can have its own set of priority options. To create and apply a new priority scheme, follow these steps:

1. Browse to the administration console.
2. Select the Issues tab and then the Priority schemes option.
3. Click on the Add priority scheme button.
4. Enter a name for the new priority scheme.
5. Drag the priorities that you want to be part of the scheme from the Available priorities list and drop them into the Selected priorities list.
6. Select a Default priority value. Note that this is optional, and you can only select a default priority after you have selected at least one priority for the new scheme.
7. Click on the Add button, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once you have created the new priority scheme, you can go to your project's setting page, select the new priority scheme, and apply the scheme.