Creating issues in portfolio with mandatory fields

Question

God Day,

I made some fields mandetrory upon creation on some issues (Parent link for Epics and and Epic link for Stories)

When I create these issues in Portfolio and I add these fields I can't commit the changes as it is still looking for those fields to be populated.

"Epic Link is required"

Am I doing something wrong or is this just not possible?

Portfolio v2.2.6

JIRA v7.3.2

Regards,

Juan

Martin_Wasiak · Answer

We also made Epic Link mandatory for Tasks, and now are unable to create Tasks in Portfolio.

I narrowed down the problem to the "Epic Link" validator which we added to prevent users from creating orphaned Tasks without an Epic.  However, Portfolio doesn't set the Epic Link field and gets an error.  You can see that when looking at new item details in screenshot below:

What's buggy is that Portfolio eventually DOES set that Epic Link field, but it does later after the Validator has already fired.  I confirmed that by turning off that validator and looking at the tasks created.

It's a shame since Portfolio would have been a quick tool to add Tasks to Jira.

-Martin

Joe Collins · Answer

How do you expose required (custom fields) in Portfolio for JIRA when creating so that they can be committed back to JIRA?

Alan Williams_yoi63v · Answer

Hey Nic:

In portfolio you are already assigning an issue to an epic or feature.  So Jira should see that its assigned to a specific epic link in the hierarchy.

The same things will happen if you have portfolio "Teams" as a required field.  In the portfolio plan you are already assigning issues to a team.  Jira doesn't recognize this and when you commit....you have to assign it to a team AGAIN.

I have to think that this is not intended functionality.