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Customizing Likelihood and Severity as Choice Lists
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You can find an example project zip file attached to this tutorial, containing the setup in this example.
Create custom choice fields for Likelihood and Severity fields
Create Likelihood choice field
1. Click on Fields tab.
2. Scroll to the end and click on More Fields at the bottom of the tab. Select New Choice Field
3. Name the field as per your choice and click OK.
Create Severity choice field
1. Click on Fields tab.
2. Scroll to the end and click on More Fields at the bottom of the tab. Select New Choice Field
3. Name the filed as per your choice and click OK.
4. Click on Save in the Fields tab The new field is created.
5. Click on Options in the fields line in Fields tab list.
6. Add the Options, considering the following:
The id of each option should be the selectable severity value.
The name of each option should be a name resembling to the value.
7. Click on Save in the Fields tab.
Set the Risk field's Computed As expression
1. Click on Show property name check box in the top of Fields tab.
2. Identify the property name of Likelihood choice field, and Severity choice field.
3. Click on the Risks option under the Label column.
4. Click inside the computed as text box.
5. Modify the expression.
Set it to the expression you decide using the property names you identified earlier.
For example, choiceField[2].
6. Click on OK.
7. Click on Save in the Fields tab.
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.
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