Is it able to lock the user stories and also the test cases there in Jira

[Anuradha Yadav]

We have a requirement from a user to lock user story and test cases. please suggest.

[Liam Green · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anuradha Yadav 

Can you explain what you mean by 'lock' please?

[Anuradha Yadav]

That we can lock user stories when they are done and add a workflow to reopen (put them on enhanced or obsolete).

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

You need to explain what you mean by "lock".  How does a locked issue behave differently to an unlocked one?

[Anuradha Yadav]

Thanks for the quick response and sorry for the confusion. I meant:

Lock - User shouldn't make any further changes like edit/update issue.

For instance, once issue is moved to completed/done status, User shouldn't make any further changes to that issue. 

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

Ok, the standard way to do this is to edit the workflow.  For each status where you want to prevent edit, add a  workflow property  that tells Jira to disallow editing (and commenting and other stuff you might want to block)

For a good example of this, go into the list of workflows and find the standard read-only default workflow, copy it and edit the copy, then take a look at the properties on the "closed" status.