Assignment of Review Approval for Specific Stories

Question

Hi,

Is there a mechanism in place in Jira to ensure that a specific person is responsible for approving a particular story during the review Process?

Example : When "Story1" is routed to review, it should be approved only by "ABC" person

when other Stories are task are routed to review, It should be approved by default workflow members.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Ankit Srivastava_3e9eks · Answer

Hi @Gagana ,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

You can create a new single user picker custom field, for eg: Approval Required By and also set condition in the workflow transition that only that "Approval Required by" user can move the status from YYY to review.

For this, please follow below details

*   Create a Custom Field: Establish a custom field (e.g., "Approval Required By") as a single user picker.
*   Set Field Value: When creating "Story1," manually assign "ABC" to this custom field other wise set and default value for this field XYZ.
* Set Conditions: In the post function, define conditions.  
User Is In Custom field - Allows only users in a given custom field to execute the transition. Then select In Field and field name "Approval Required By".

Or,

You may also use Validator instead of Condition.

Hope this will help.

Thanks,
Ankit Srivastava

Dave Mathijs · Answer

Hi @Gagana welcome to the Atlassian Community!

What are the criteria for routing approval from a story to approver A or B?

Is it a label, a component, a value of a custom field?

I'm sure you could build an automation rule based on a specific condition.