I have a Kanban board. We want to restrict tickets without story points (a custom field) from being moved to the board. Is there a way to set up restrictions on what can move from the backlog to the ready column, or first column on board?

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It's all said in the title, we want to enforce that tickets are reviewed before a developer can start working on them.  Part of this review is making sure the story has been pointed.  Is there a way to block tickets from moving from the backlog to the Kanban board that haven't met X criteria?

Maik Zimmermann · Answer

is there a similar add-on for Jira cloud users?

Nicolas Bourdages · Answer

Yes. It's called a workflow validator. It prevents a transition from taking place if the chosen criteria are not met.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/using-validators-with-custom-fields-802592823.html

The Fields Required validator requires installing a free plugin, JIRA Suite Utilities.