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Customizing Risks tracker to use drop-downs in Likelihood, and Severity fields

Create custom choice fields for Likelihood and Severity fields

Create Likelihood choice field

  • Customize Risks tracker
  • Click on Fields tab
  • Click on More Fields in the bottom of the tab
  • Click on New Choice Field (new field overlay appears)
  • Give a name to the choice field (like LikelihoodChoice)
  • Click on OK in the new field overlay
  • Click on Save in the Fields tab -> The new field is created
  • Click on Options in the fields line in Fields tab list
  • Add Options
    • The id of each option should be the selectable likelyhood value
    • The name of each option should be a name resembling to the value
  • Click on OK in the Options overlay
  • Click on Save in the Fields tab -> The options are saved

Create Severity choice field

  • Click on More Fields in the bottom of Fields tab
  • Click on New Choice Field (new field overlay appears)
  • Give a name to the choice field (like SeverityChoice)
  • Click on OK in the new field overlay
  • Click on Save in the Fields tab -> The new field is created
  • Click on Options in the fields line in Fields tab list
  • Add Options
    • The id of each option should be the selectable severity value
    • The name of each option should be a name resembling to the value
  • Click on OK in the Options overlay
  • Click on Save in the Fields tab -> The options are saved

Set the Risk field's "Computed As" expression

  • Click on "Show property name" check box in the top of Fields tab
  • Identify the property name of Likelihood choice field, and Severity choice field
  • Click on Risks label in field list, in the line of Risks field
  • Click in the computed as text area
  • Modify the expression
    • Set it to the expression you decide using the property names you identified earlier
    • E.g. choiceField[2]
  • Click on OK
  • Click on Save in the Fields tab > The expression is saved

Create choice fields for fields after mitigation

  • Repeat the same procedure with fields "Likelihood after mitigation" and "Severity after mitigation"
  • Set the expression of "Risk after mitigation" field the same way as "Risk" field