How does jira check that a required field have a value?

Tomas Gustavsson_mf0n45

Hi all

Hope to get an answer.
I have a custom field of type date picker configured as required,  I have added it to a transition screen.

In some cases this required field, have a value before I actually require it, via my transition screen. 
What happens is that we in this situation needs to change to another date in order for jira to understand that this field has a value., otherwise the workflow does not let us transition the ticket. 

Any idea on a workaround for this?  

Iago Docando

If a field is set as mandatory then it must have a value in order to create the issue in the first place.

If what you want is to assure any given field has a value at some particular point in your workflow what you must use is a validation in the appropriate transition.

I don't think there's a validation to check if the field value changes on transition but I guess you can resort to jira automation or some scripting tool in order to check this and in case it doesn't change then refuse the transition.