What is an X-Priority?
The X-Priority is used to indicate the importance of a message. Microsoft only allows a 5 X-Priority levels https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Feature-request-X-Priority-header-support/td-p/1458423 and therefore the default range of X-Priorities is 1-5 with 1 relating to the highest priority and 5 the lowest.
There is a default Priority Scheme for all Projects that don’t have a defined Priority Scheme. It has the default 5 priority levels from 1-5. However, Priorities and Priority Schemes can be created and applied to a given Project. A created Priority Scheme can contain any amount of priorities starting from 1.
Due to a Priority Scheme potentially holding more than 5 Priorities matching the 5 Priority levels that Microsoft allows, JEMH has to make changes to decide which Priority should be used for a message.
How JEMH works with X-Priorities:
JEMH
Note: If the user selects chooses an X-Priority that is greater than 5, the lowest priority that is available will be used.
Example use of implementation:
Example Case Results:
Case with 1:
Number of Priorities | Chosen Priority | Result Priority |
|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 1 | 1 |
3 | 1 | 1 |
4 | 1 | 1 |
5 | 1 | 1 |
6 | 1 | 1 |
7 | 1 | 1 |
8 | 1 | 1 |
9 | 1 | 1 |
10 | 1 | 1 |
Case with 5
Number of Priorities | Chosen Priority | Result Priority |
|---|---|---|
1 | 5 | 1 |
2 | 5 | 2 |
3 | 5 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 4 |
5 | 5 | 5 |
6 | 5 | 6 |
7 | 5 | 7 |
8 | 5 | 8 |
9 | 5 | 9 |
10 | 5 | 10 |
Case with 3
Number of Priorities | Chosen Priority | Result Priority |
|---|---|---|
1 | 3 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 2 |
3 | 3 | 2 |
4 | 3 | 3 |
5 | 3 | 3 |
6 | 3 | 4 |
7 | 3 | 5 |
8 | 3 | 5 |
9 | 3 | 6 |
10 | 3 | 6 |
Feature Improvement:
If the user specifies that they want the x-priority to be a value higher than 5 and a priority with an id higher than 5 matches this, set this to be the priority, otherwise, default to the lowest priority.