Required Fields - Existing issues

[Jerry O'Sullivan]

Hi

We have made some fields required for our bug tickets...This works fine for the new tickets

Existing tickets seem to ignore this, is there anyway to enforce this on legacy tickets so when they are editing the fields are required

Thanks

J

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Jerry - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You could add a validator to each transition to require those fields. That way they can't move the card without the fields being field in. 

[Jerry O'Sullivan]

Thanks @John Funk  I was looking at that...but I want it only for a specific issue type - bug - Can I set up a validator for this? Would I need a separate workflow for bugs :(

[John Funk]

Yes, you would need a separate workflow for Bugs - OR - you can use an add-on like JMWE where you can do conditional validators.   :-)

You could just copy the existing workflow and label it as the Bug workflow and then modify that. So the process is pretty quick and easy. 

[Jerry O'Sullivan]

Thanks @John Funk . I didn't want the overhead of an additional workflow but it looks like it might be the only no cost option 

Thanks for the prompt response!