Epic Link Required via Workflow Create Action, but is not being respect on "Move"

[Jeffrey Bistrong]

In jira software, you are unable to set the epic link (or parent) field as a required field through the field configuration. 

However, I was able to work around this by adding a condition to the Create action on the workflow to make the epic link required. 

However, it does not work when issues are moved from one project to another. Are there any other solutions out there we can explore to ensure the epic is required when issues are moved into X project.

[Petter Gonçalves · Accepted solution]

Hello John,

Per your description, you would like to display in a swimlane all the issues in your project that are linked to issues in another project. Is that correct?

If that's the case, you will need a plugin to return this information. The Script Runner plugin give you some a JQL parameter that provides you this kind of information: linkedIssuesOf

issueFunction in linkedIssuesOf("project != testproject")

For more details about it, you can check Script Runner documentation in the link below:

- Scripted JQL Functions

Please, let me know if it works for you.

[J.M.]

Thanks for the response. Would be great if I didn't need a plugin