Can a component default assignee be a Jira group?

[Hilde Weisert]

JIra help describes making a comoonent default assignee be a specific Jira user, but in order to have coverage when that person is gone, can the default assignee be a Jira group or even an Outlook DL?

[Dan Breyen · Accepted solution]

Hi @Hilde Weisert at this time, the standard application doesn't allow groups to be the default assignee.  I found this Suggestion CONFCLOUD-72555 submitted on Atlassian's Jira site (jira.atlassian.com).  Feel free to vote for and watch it for further updates.

[Hilde Weisert]

THanks, could you point me to where Suggestions are submitted so I can vote? Went to the Jira site but can't find that.

[Dan Breyen]

whoops, I forgot to add the link.  I edited my post.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Um, that link is to a Confluence Cloud table improvement.

Assignee has to be an individual.  It cannot be a group, so you can't make a component lead a group. 

I doubt Atlassian are ever going to change that - one of the reasons the assignee field was built that way originally was too many problems in legacy issue-trackers that were assigning groups and therefore having massive tracking and responsibility problems.

The new Team field might be appropriate to have alongside an individual though.

[Dan Breyen]

I just read the weekly cloud features email Cloud Changes and what do I see, but something about a 'Team' field that's rolling out that looks promising.  Click on that link and scroll down to the 'Jira Platform' section and read it.  That looks promising.