Priorities are used by the priority management system to prioritize incidents and tasks. When priorities are entered in the
section, these are then available for use when entering or updating incidents and tasks.You must manually create priorities if you want the ability to assign them to incidents or tasks. If no priorities are defined, then none will be available when entering incidents or tasks.
To access the master list of priorities, go to
. The following screen will appear.The List Priorities screen displays information on all existing priorities, including priority order, name, and description.
To create a new priority, select the
button. The following screen will appear:When creating a new priority, you are presented with the following options:
Enter a name to define the priority (e.g., High, Medium, Low, etc.).
Specify the order in which the priority should appear when using the drop-down list on the Incident screen.
Enter a brief description of the incident priority.