Comments mandatory with end date changes

[Sandro Leone]

Hey community,

is there a way to make end date changes only possible when you submit a comment regarding the change?

Similarly to how you are able to write a comment when changing the status of an issue.

BR

[Dirk Ronsmans · Accepted solution]

@Sandro Leone ,

Providing a popup/mandatory entry when just changing a field is not something that's possible (unless you use an on premise version with Scriptrunner behaviours)

The easiest work around I feel would be to remove the field from the Edit screen and actually add a transition with a transition screen where you add the field "end date".

That way you change the field through the popup and it allows you to also add a comment.

[Sandro Leone]

Hi @Dirk Ronsmans 

Thank you for your answer! I feel like that is working how I want it to.

Now, when changing the workflow with a loop, for example on backlog, the following happens:

The transition buttons inside issues get grouped together (see the following 2 images https://imgur.com/a/HflttSN).

Before the change to the workflow, the 2 possible options going from backlog were visible (Task and Change Request). After the change, Change Request and my new transition, Change End Date, are grouped together in a dropdown.

Is there a way you know of to make these appear seperately, not grouped together?

Also, another question. Is it possible to make adding a comment in that transition screen mandatory? For now, adding a comment is optional. What could also be great, is if I could set a pre set comment (for example, the comment starts with "End date changed due to:".

Thank you.

[Dirk Ronsmans]

For the buttons that is indeed something that happens.  When you have too many transitions from the status you are in it will group them together.

You can influence it a little tho with some advanced settings on the workflow.

Change the order of the buttons

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/advanced-workflow-configuration-938847443.html#Advancedworkflowconfiguration-customisingtransitionsonviewissue

Add more buttons

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/add-more-workflow-transition-buttons-to-jira-issue-page-1064082957.html

Making the comment mandatory on a transition is possible but with the On premise version (Server/Datacenter) it requires a app.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/make-custom-fields-required-in-a-workflow-transition-in-jira-server-691011903.html

(On Cloud this is available out of the box but on premise you require an app to add the "field required validator)