How can I bulk change a list of issues to Read-Only?

Question

Hi,

please can you advise me how to bulk change a list of issues that I have used a search to create to Read-Only?

I have realised late that there should have been a workflow property set to do this as they were closed/ cancelled.

Many thanks in anticipation of your help and assistance.

Sam

Samantha Bragg · Answer

Thanks @Trudy P Claspill ,

that's a really comprehensive answer that must've taken time to write, this will be useful.

Thanks again.

Sam

Samantha Bragg · Answer

Hi @John Funk ,

I wanted to close the issues when the Fix Version they are assigned to is released, but reading the previous reply, it is better to do this via issue closure. Thank you for your assistance though.

Samantha Bragg · Answer

Thanks @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- ,

I think that is the best answer going forward, but this wasn't thought of in advance, so now I have a list of issues which were not set to read only in the work flow... I think you are right... a transition from Closed to Closed and making sure that issues are set to read only when closed is the best solution,  we had envisaged doing it when the fix version was released, but this should work too.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sam