How do I disable the ability drag and drop between columns on the board?

Lex Ryan_ecncct

Our workflow chart is a big web, but the columns are linear (visually speaking) and the ability to drag issues between columns has caused nothing but headache for us, so we want to disable that, so that people must use the status transition functionality within the ticket itself. That way only the specific status' we've configured in the flow are visible and there's less confusion where the ticket goes next.

I can find a lot about people trying to enable column drag'n'drop, or having issues with it, but not about just turning it off, which is what we want!

Thanks!

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Lex Ryan 

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

The ability to drag cards between columns on the board is governed by the transitions you have defined in the workflow. You can drag the cards only to the column/status where there is a supported transition from the original to the destination status.

You can't disable that drag-n-drop functionality in the board while leaving the users the ability to change the status of the issues.