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How to make assignee required / mandatory when creating an issue (Jira 4.2)?

Carlos Reyes

G'Day Jira gurus,

A project lead asked me to make in her project the assignee mandatory when creating an issue. However there is not "required" option in the configuration screen (See pic) . I appreciate if anyone could assit me in how to achieve to make the assignee mandatory in a Jira project. I am using Jira 4.2

Regards

Carlos

PS: The project is set up that the default assignee is Unassigned (If this is of help)

Accepted answers

John Chin

Hi Carlos,

In such case, there is not way to do it by default in JIRA, however this can be achieve by using a third party plugin call JIRA Suite Utilities , which has a set of conditions and validations to personalize workflow of JIRA.

To perform that:

Install the JIRA Suite Utilities. For install the plugin please refer to: Managing JIRA's Plugins#InstallingaJIRAPlugin
Use the 'Fields Required' validator function in your specified transition. Please refer to: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JSUTIL/JIRA+Suite+Utilities+Workflow+Validators
Add the 'Assignee' field as required.

Good luck.

Regards,

John Chin

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Could you check if you have "allow unassigned issues" on or off in Global Configuration?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Bother, that rules out my initial thought on what might be wrong. I must admit I'm now a bit stuck, because I can only think of one way of surpressing the "required" flag, and you've just ruled it out.

Carlos Reyes

Hi Nic,

Yes I have in the global option in the item "Allow unassigned issues" is On

Regards

Carlos

Harry Chan5

Hi, the assignee cannot be a required field as it already has a default value, i.e. unassigned. The only other option is to default this to the component or project lead.

John Chin

Hi Carlos,

To perform that:

Install the JIRA Suite Utilities. For install the plugin please refer to: Managing JIRA's Plugins#InstallingaJIRAPlugin
Use the 'Fields Required' validator function in your specified transition. Please refer to: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JSUTIL/JIRA+Suite+Utilities+Workflow+Validators
Add the 'Assignee' field as required.

Good luck.

Regards,

John Chin

Carlos Reyes

Thanks John for the answer. I negotiated a compromised solution with the project lead but I might try this answer in the medium term in my dev/test Jira instance

Cheers

Fabian Meier1

What if someones clicks the Assign action?

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