Restrict issue access by status

Question

I'd like to restrict access (at least editability) to issues that are in the product backlog and not yet pulled into a sprint. I have a Product Backlog Kanban board in my project with statuses Backlog, Story Prep, Refinement, and Defined. Separately, we have a Scrum Board for statuses starting at Sprint Backlog through Dev, QA, documentation, PO Review, and Done.

I'd like to make sure that the only person who can make edits while an issue is in the Product Backlog statuses is the Product Owner. So I'd either like to restrict access to that board or make issues read-only for everyone except the PO until the issue makes it to Sprint Backlog status.

What are the best way(s) to do that?

Brant Schroeder · Answer

@Karie Price if it works for you can you accept the answer so others can find the solution.

Karie Price · Answer

@Brant Schroeder thank you! I'll give that a try!

Brant Schroeder · Answer

@Karie Price Welcome to the Atlassian community

On the workflow you can add the following property on the status in which you would like the issue to be read-only jira.issue.editable = false.  Individuals will still be able to add comments but will not be able to edit the issue.  You can then add a condition to that same status that would allow only a certain group to make the transition.

Configure advanced issue workflows