Validate two fields when an issue is moved from open to in-progress

[Abhishek Ramakrishna P]

Greetings to all!

I'm aiming to implement conditional validation whereby, upon transitioning an issue from "Open" to "In-progress", validation must occur to confirm that either the "component" field or the "sprint" field has been filled out. If either of these fields has not been filled out, the transition should not be allowed.

Can someone help me achieve this.

Thanks in Advance

[David Fischer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Abhishek Ramakrishna P 

should the transition be allowed if at least one of the fields has a value, or only if both fields have a value?

If the latter, then you can use a Field Required Validator.

If the former, you need to create a Build-your-own Validator with this Jira expression:

!!issue.components && issue.components.length > 0 || !!issue.sprint

[Abhishek Ramakrishna P]

Thanks David, transition should be allowed if at least one of the fields has a value. proposed solution works as expected !

[Rus Yates-Aylott]

A little late to the party here but I have used linked Conditions to evaluate responses to several fields. These are AND and OR conditions.

Since conditions do not through up any Validation error messages, I am looking to achieve the same thing using Validation rules. However, I cannot see how to chain AND validations and OR validations together using the standard offerings.

If, as I suspect, I have to write a simple script, so be it. But how do i do this within the Workflows editor?

[Dave Mathijs · Accepted solution]

Hi @Abhishek Ramakrishna P 

On the transition from "Open" to "In-progress" you can add a:

Condition

• Value field: Allows to execute a transition if the given value of a field is equal to a constant value, or simply set.

OR

Validator

• Field has single value Validator: Field must not be empty during the transition.

The difference is that with a condition, the transition is not visible until the fields are filled out (which may lead to confusion as to why one cannot transition from one status to another) whereas a validator allows you to indicate which fields are required and add a transition screen with those fields which allows your user to fill them out.

[Abhishek Ramakrishna P]

Hello Dave, 

Thank you for the response. We did achieve this individually by adding condition & validator separately on the same transition,  I'm actually trying to find out can we achieve both at the same time as a validator by using ScriptRunner or JMWE for Jira cloud.

Regards,

Abhishek.