How do I give permission to devs so that when they create issue they can only assign to themselves?

Aamil Nakhuda

Hello,

I am a Jira administrator in my team and I assign tasks(issues) to developers, testers, etc.

I have came to a situation where the developers want to create an issue for themselves and to assign to themselves only.

 

I want to restrict developers in issue creation, where only they can create an issue and assign to them selves and no one else. How do I achieve this?

Regards

Chris Buzon

permissions in cloud jira don't really work exactly that way. There are 3 relevant permissions (they are per-project, based on the role the user has in that project).

Assignable user - allows each specific user (in each role) to be assigned issues by anyone else.
Assign Issues - allows each specific user with this role to assign issues to others.
Create Issues - allows each specific user to create new issues (the default assignee is configurable, based on components, automation, post-functions, etc).

You can't really limit them to assigning a ticket to themselves easily, but there are ways you can achieve that goal - I do not suggest doing this, btw.
You'd have to remove the ability to assign users to others, then use automation to set the assignee (to the reporter of the issue) when the ticket is created.  They would also need "create issues" permission in this case. 
This is not a desirable thing to do, usually - since it will affect all ticket types, and will limit the ability of others to assign tickets easily.  Someone would have to manage all the tickets on behalf of the team, and that doesn't usually scale very well.