Assigning different screens to different groups

[Beat Schaffner BS]

How do I assign different screens to different groups. E.g. I would like users who enter an issue to only have Summary and Description fields while a developer should have much more fields to fill in.

[Dieter]

Another approach could be to have multiple edit transitions in your workflow, e.g. one for developer, one for end users. You can use workflow conditions to make the transitions accessible for developer or for end users only.

You could name the transition "Add more information". The transitions would lead back into the same state and the transition screen would contain more or less custom fields depending on if it's the transition for developer or end users.

To make things clearer you could restrict the Edit permission to project administrators only. Thus the usual edit screen might show all fields since it could only be edited by the project administrator.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Workflow operation is the workaround mentioned in the other answer ;)

[Dieter]

Sorry, Jobin, you are right. Should have read that better before

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Oh don't worry, you have explained it much better :)

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can't restrict field level editing using permissions. Here is a recent question simialr to this: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21402/permission-based-custom-field-editing