Internationalization in workflow transitions

If people around the world speaking different languages use your JIRA instance, it is likely that you use internationalization to convert JIRA into their own language. But things such as the workflow action name, button name, and so on are configured in the workflows and not as i18n properties. And therefore, they are limited to a single language.

This is where workflow properties come to our rescue, again!

How to do it…

We can modify the workflow action's submit button name or the action name using the properties jira.i18n.submit or jira.i18n.title, respectively. The following are the steps to perform this recipe:

1. Open the JAR file atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib/language_<language code>_<country code>.jar. From JIRA 4.3 onwards, the JAR filename is of the form jira-lang-<language code>_<country code>-<jira version>.jar.

2. Edit the file \com\atlassian\jira\web\action\JiraWebActionSupport_<language code>_<country...