How can I define allowed resolutions for e.g. an issuetype?

Question

We use JIRA Software and I created a project with that "Simple Issue Tracking"-Wizard.

Before using that wizard we hat the default resolutions fixed, won't fix, duplicate, incomplete and cannot reproduce. The wizard added 3 more resolutions...

These Resolutions are now available in ALL projects - how can I get JIRA to display the three NEW resolutions only in simple-issue-tracking-projects and the 5 other (old) resolutions only in 'Standard'-Projects?

Jeremy Gaudet · Accepted Answer

At the project level, you can use workflow properties on any transition that has a screen that allows resolutions.  The properties are "jira.field.resolution.include" and "jira.field.resolution.exclude"; I prefer to use "include" so that new resolutions don't show up automatically.

If you need to restrict on a specific issuetype within a project, you need multiple transitions for each "resolvable" transition using conditions to restrict each one to the relevant issuetype(s).  To make them all appear the same, use the properties "jira.i18n.title" and "jira.i18n.submit"; for default transitions like Resolve Issue and Close Issue, there are existing keys such as "resolveissue.title" and "resolveissue.resolve".  For custom labels, you'll have to modify "WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/jira/web/action/JiraWebActionSupport.properties" to add your own.  That file may need re-packing as a jar, I haven't tested and it appears that may be deployment specific.

To clarify that a little, if you have a transition from, say, "In Progress" to "Resolved", with the original transition being "Resolve Issue", you could add "Resolve Bug" and "Resolve Improvement" such that "Resolve Bug" has a condition on the value of the IssueType field being "Bug".  If you want it to show as "Resolve Issue" in the UI, set the workflow property as I described above (resolveissue.title maps to "Resolve Issue").