Is there a way to allow a group access to specific transition in JIRA?

[Aditi Sharma]

In permission schemes there is no transition permission to a group. Now, I want to give that permission to the group but only for certain transition only. I had put that condition for that specific transition but since in Permission schemes it is not allowed, that's why it is not showing up. Can someone please help me here?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, this is what conditions are for.  A condition stops users from using a transition unless certain criteria are met, usually user related ones like "user must be in role or group" or "user must have permission x"

I don't understand what you mean by "I had put that condition for that specific transition but since in Permission schemes it is not allowed, that's why it is not showing up"

[Aditi Sharma]

Ok let me put it in other way. In permission schemes , the group 'A' don't have permission to do any transition at all. But in workflow, only for transition 'T' I had added condition to allow group 'A' to do that transition only. But when when I am logging in with any user of the group 'A', I am still not seeing option to do transition 'T'.

[Joe Pitt]

You are getting stopped in the permission scheme. The condition on the transition is never going to work because you're stopping them at a higher level. It's like saying I'm not going to allow you in the front door of the building, but it is OK if you use one office. 

[Aditi Sharma]

So how to implement this one? Is there no way?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah, I missed that "n permission schemes there is no transition permission to a group".

Yes, you can do it.  Allow the group transition permission in the scheme, then block the people you don't want to use it with conditions.

[Aditi Sharma]

So you are saying allow the transition at permission level for that group, then in workflow, block other transitions for that group. Is that the only way?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, as Joe says, there's no point allowing someone access to one room in a building if you have not granted them any permission to get into the building at all.