Defaulting department and manager fields in Jira

Question

When creating their first issue, I'd like the user to select their Department (from a select) and their Manager (from a group-restricted user picker), and store those selections as user properties or some other mechanism.

When the user creates subsequent issues, I would like to default the Department list to their department, and default the Manager field to the user they selected initially.

Any ideas on how to achieve what I want?  My main goal is to default the correct values for Department and Manager.

Thanks

Mark

Mark Atkins · Answer

Thanks Jobin,  I was hoping to avoid that.  I'm not aware of any plugin that will do what I'm after, but I'm sure it would be a fairly common requirement/nice to have.

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Answer

You will have to develop a plugin with a new custom field type where you will persist the user association and use it as defaults next time!