Changing issue security on transition - will it send an email to the previous security group set?

Question

During a specific transition, a "Supervisor" (role) wants to set a value in a field and also restrict issue visibility at the same time. She specifically doesn't want to let users outside of that role see the value of that field. I also want to avoid supervisors doing two clicks from a UX perspective. (e.g. I want to avoid them clicking "edit" to change the security scheme and then clicking the transition to edit a field and change the status.)

Does the event fired during a transition respect an issue security change during that same transition?

Update: Did some testing on my end and a security level change during a transition (specifically set a postfunction) does respect the new security level.

Meg Holbrook · Answer

Glad to see your testing worked out as expected. Have a great day!

Amy Biasella · Answer

Yeah, it uses the generic event which emails a reporter/assignee/watcher.

I did some testing on my side and it does look like the issue security change is respected during a transition, so I don't need to change events.

Meg Holbrook · Answer

Hi Amy,

Does the transition you are applying trigger an event to send an email? If so, the email will still send as far as I'm aware. What you will want to do is remove the function from the transition to trigger that notification event if that is the case.

To be extra sure, I'd recommend running a test scenario. I have largely turned off all notifications on our organization's help desk, so I can't be of much help on that front. If the security applies first, you may be safe.