How to assign custom roles to Epic?

Arbak Martirosyan

Hello, 

Question is following: 

We want to have default Owner, Assignee and QA roles for the epics and tasks that are created in the project. It's clear with assignee, and I know how to create custom fields with user picker, BUT: 

• we need QA field to be autopopulated with Epic's default QA on the task create screen
• when a status of the task is changed, we need QA to be notified about it (and ideally autoassign issue to him). 

Is this possible in Jira cloud? 

Petter Gonçalves

Hello Arbak,

Thank you for raising this question.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that JIRA does not have such functionality, however, there are a few options to achieve it by using some plugins.

Per your description, the best option to copy the QA user from the Epic when creating a task issue would be using the plugin Automation for JIRA and configuring the following rule.

P.S: I used the assignee field because I don't have the QA custom field:

For your second request, another rule from the same plugin can give you this option.

P.S: you will be able to find the QA custom field in the field To: