wanted to provide Epic link warning message in stories if epic link is missing When saving in Jira p

[Prathiba]

wanted to provide Epic link warning message in stories if epic link is missing When saving in Jira project area.

can you help with this pls?

[Trudy Claspill]

You want to only warn that the data is missing, but still allow the issue to be saved. Is that correct?

[Prathiba]

This warning/error message should trigger when user clicks to transition the user story to in Progress without an Epic link, informing the user an Epic Link is needed in order to transition the user story.so it should not allow user to transition to in progress.

[Trudy Claspill]

You could set a Condition on the transitions to In Progress to confirm that the Epic Link field is set. If it is not set the option to change the issue to In Progress will simply not be available.

Alternately you can set a Validator on the transitions to In Progress to confirm that the Epic Link field is not empty. In that case you can define a message to display when the Validator is not satisfied and the transition will be prevented. You could also create a screen that shows the Epic Link field for that issue, and attach it to the transition, giving the user the opportunity to fill in the field while they are doing the transition.

[Prathiba]

Thanks for the response, but I have one question. Can we add condition or validator as mentioned above for already created workflows?

Iam able to add them only to new workflows.

[Trudy Claspill]

What happens when you try to add it to an existing workflow?

You should be able to modify existing workflows.

If that doesn't work, copy the existing workflow, modify the copy, then add the copy to your workflow scheme and remove the original.