Upon creation, how can the issue be automatically assigned to the reporter only if an assignee isn't chosen first.

Jillian Patters2

I'd like to be able to choose the assignee when creating an issue but if I forget to do so, I'd like it to default to me. I see that there are post functions that allow me to assign to myself or to the reporter upon creation but when I use those, it will override the assignee field if one was chosen initially. 

Randall Robertson

One simple way to do this without having to write your own code is to set yourself as the automatic assignee on the project. Of course, that only works if you (and whoever else uses your project) don't mind you being the assignee for any issue in that project where the creator does not pick an assignee when creating the issue.

Same idea works for specific components in your project - you can make yourself the component lead and set the auto-assign to go to the component lead, not the project lead. Again, that all depends on how you and your team use components.