Make Team Field Required

[Bishop Justice]

We would like to base our scrum boards off of the Team field surfaced in Advanced Roadmaps. Currently there's no way to make the field required so things don't fall through the cracks. Is there a way to make this field required so we can group by team in roadmaps and make sure we're not missing anything? 

[Walter Buggenhout _ACA IT_ · Accepted solution]

Yes @Bishop Justice,

Just add a Fields Required validator to the create transition of the workflow associated with the issue type you are creating.

You can find out what workflow is behind your issues through Project Settings > Workflows.

When you edit that workflow:

1. Select the transition to the first status in your workflow
2. Select Validators
3. Click Add validator
4. Select Fields Required Validator and select the Team field as your required field
5. Publish the updated workflow

The result should look like this:

If you have multiple issue types and workflows, repeat the same configuration for the other workflows as well.

[Bishop Justice]

Thanks for the quick response Walter! I can give it a shot, but I'm concerned it might not work. I tried to use a workflow customization on the team field to copy values and Jira didn't recognize the field. Looks like the Team field doesn't function like most other fields for some reason

[Walter Buggenhout _ACA IT_]

No worries, @Bishop Justice :-)

You are right about the Team field being somewhat special. The difference with what you did earlier is that a fields required validator does not manipulate data, it just checks whether anything was filled out or not. You just have to make sure that your users CAN select a team from the field, but since your question hints at making the field required, I assume that won't be an issue. The prerequisites are that the field is present on your issue create screen and that you use shared teams from advanced roadmaps (plan specific teams won't be visible in the field).

As a bonus, I have been struggling with the field myself. It is key to making Advanced Roadmaps work, so I have also looked at default values or automate the field being filled out. While the first is not possible, automation will do as long as your setup allows for decent condition checking. With the help of this awesome Community, I managed to get that in place as well - see this related question.

Nonetheless, it may be difficult to identify conditions that may be used to determine what issues go with each team automatically. And that case, making the field required is a very good step into data consistency! 

[Bishop Justice]

Great, thanks so much for the answer Walter! This should help to make sure the field is filled out for us.