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Providing restricted edit functionality to users

Ryan Grimard

We are using JIRA within Engineering as a bug tracking system. I have a custom field called "Developer". When an issue is triaged, the triage team will transition a bug from "In Triage" to "Assigned for Development". At that time, they will pick a user for the "Developer" custom field. There is a post function on this transition that sets the assignee to the user in the "Developer" custom field.

I would like the assignee (the Developer) to be able to assign the issue to another developer. Ultimately, I would like a button that reads "Change Developer". However, this isn't a workflow transition since the issue isn't moving from one state to another. I am currently using the "Assign" action but that only changes the Assignee. I would like to change both the Assignee and the Developer custom field at the same time.

Is there a way to provide some sort of restricted Edit functionality that only allows users to change specific fields (Developer, in this case) ?

Accepted answers

Dieter

Your transition could lead back to the same state. it's not necessary to change the state in a transition.

As workflow condition you would ust allow the assignee and the workflow post function changes the data as you need them. They only drawback is tht you have to duplicate this to all the states where you want to allow to "Change Developer"

All comments

Dieter

Your transition could lead back to the same state. it's not necessary to change the state in a transition.

JamieA

Recent versions of jira have "global actions", only settable through the graphical workflow designer. Global actions can return to the same state and are available on every state.

Dieter

thanks for the hint. Really need to look closer at the workflow designer now. So a global action would also make this solution easily maintainable

Vincent Thoulé

Global Actions (and more) are available since the begining of JIRA !

Minyaa plugin (and Kaamelot plugin before) provides a way to link Edit Operation and a Global Action.

It allows you to use a dedicated Global action on edit operation using the the default Edit screen.