How do I get validation of a field without having to add to every transition?

[Denise Wermager]

In our current on-prem DC we have a plugin for fields that validates the format of what is entered against defined regex. Is there a way with JIRA cloud to do this? I would prefer not having to add a validator to every transition in the workflows impacted and even if I do that it doesn't enforce the format on the issue screen where the value can be edited without having to do a transition.  Automation doesn't appear to be the answer as it has no way of displaying the error on the screen so the user must address it right away. 

[Jack Dillon]

Hi @Denise Wermager 

You can do this with the ScriptRunner plugin for Jira. You can create a "Behaviour" to enforce certain types of values at all times, if the user enters something that doesn't match your regex it will display an error. 

Unfortunately, I don't think Jira has a way to do this without a third party plugin.

Hope this helps :)

[John Funk]

Hi Denise,

There might be a third party app in the Atlassian Marketplace that can do that. But I can't think of anyway to do that with out-of-the-box Jira.