SLA assignment work around

[Brian Critchlow]

Within service desk, creating an SLA for time to assignment has a couple bugs and I am trying to figure out a work around. 

If you create an SLA for tracking the time to assignment, the only usable option is Assignee: From Unassigned.  This is great if the assignee was unassigned to begin with. If, however, one of our agents creates the issue and assigns it at the time of creation, the assignee is never unassigned and thus the SLA keeps running to no end. 

I was hoping there would be a stop condition like Assignee: Set that would solve this, like there is for the pause on, but alas it doesnt exist. 

Is there any useful workaround until Atlassian adds this condition?

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[Brian Critchlow]

I threw this together for testing. Some feedback on if this is the best solution would be helpful.

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[Brian Critchlow]

this is working for me so far

[Adam Prettyjohns]

Thanks for sharing this @Brian Critchlow. I am in exactly the same position as your original post, so I've just implemented your suggested solution to see how it goes.

[Jeremy Steuhl]

It seems like this would be an easy update for Atlassian.  However, the workaround described by @Brian Critchlow works for me.  Not super pretty, being it shows as paused, but it works.  

[Nick Ragusa]

Hi Brian,

Have you had much luck on this front yet? 

I'm trying to achieve the same thing. I have an identical SLA to your original post, with one exception; I've excluded issues in which "assignee IS EMPTY" in the JQL filter. Unfortunately, once the issue becomes assigned, the SLA is removed from the issue and thus the data is lost.

Really what I think we need is the "Assignee: Set" condition on the "Stop" functionality. Is that functionality possible Atlassian?

[Adam Prettyjohns]

I'm surprised this is the still the case @Nick Ragusa, nearly 4 years on. Did you ever find a suitable workaround?

[Brian Nguyen]

To best achieve this, you should remove the Issue Created start condition. The Assignee condition will be checked when the issue is created already so you don't need it.

[Brian Critchlow]

no, that definitely didn't work. It completely removed the SLA from existing tickets and didn't apply it to any new tickets