Affects version field to pick latest version

Ashwin Balakrishnan_i7p75h

I have a field called "Affects Version". This field is used to select one of the releases when a bug is opened. Instead of having to select a release version, is it possible for this field to be populated with the latest release whenever someone creates an issue ? Today, this field is not mandatory so whoever is creating a bug doesnt populate the release version at the time of creating the bug.

Tarun Sapra

Hello @Ashwin Balakrishnan 

This is possible but with help of a plugin and some custom scripting.

Basically when someone creates a bug then "Affects version" of the bug needs to be populated by the release version which is returning issues matching the JQL query

fixVersion in earliestUnreleasedVersionByReleaseDate(<project-key>)

Or to search the version list of the relevant project and then select the version.

There are paid plugins available like Script Runner, Power Scripts or Jira SUite utilities which might come in handy for this.