How to Track blocked issue in JIra

Srinath Reddy Pinappu_saaor0

We would like to track blocked issues in JIra but the team don't want to use Priority field,or workflow or flag option apart from this is there any other way to track ?
We are open to use any paid plugins to track blocked issues, so that it should give some blocked symbol or label to show on the scrum or Kanban board and also it's better to show for how many days it blocked.Please advise what all plugins available in the market place to track these things.

Haddon Fisher

There's a ton of ways to solve this one, here's two:

Uses Automation for JIRA

1. Create a checkbox field called "Blocked" with two options (Yes and No) and set the default value to "No". If they don't mind needing to click "Edit" to flag the issue as blocked, you don't need to set a default value.
2. Create a date field called "Blocked Date".
3. Add both fields to the screens of your issues.
4. Use the plugin "Automation for JIRA" to set the date field to the current date\time when the "Blocked" field is set to "Yes".

Uses IssueMatrix

1. Make a new custom field called something like "Blocking Issues" and set it to look at issues linked by the "is blocked by" relationship.
2. Add it to your screens.
3. Tell your devs to identify issues that are blocked by linking using the "is blocked by" relationship.