Assigning reopened stories to the same people who worked on them previously

[Vera Valshonok]

When reopening  a story how to assign it automatically to a person who previously was working on it (was assigned to it).Maybe there is some way to set it.

[Deleted user]

Hi @Vera Valshonok,

Could you define what you mean by "working on it"? The person who added a worklog to issue? The last person to be assigned to the issue? 

You can use a post-function to auto assign to a specific user however this would not fulfil your requirements. 

If you are using JIRA Server you could look into the AM Utils plugin, a similar thread mentions it here. 

If Cloud, you are going to have to look into a scripting plugin such a Script Runner. See a similar question on the matter.

Hope this helps

[Vera Valshonok]

"working on it" - The last person to be assigned to the issue? 

[Joe Pitt]

You're going to need to give some more information. I presume when issues are closed you change the assignee. Are you looking for an 'out of the box' solution are you willing to do some coding.  If out of the box I don't believe you can do it without a plugin. You could create a field named 'last assignee' and copy the assignee field on the post function during close to that field. Then when you reopen it copy the last assignee field to the assignee. JIRA suite utilites and some other plugins can do that.  If you're willing to code you may be able to find the previous assignee in the history and copy it in.  I don't do coding as many places don't want to support it long term. It limits the expertise needed to support JIRA. 

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @Vera Valshonok

If you have JMWE add-on, you can use the post function 'Assign to last role member (JMWE add-on)' that Assigns the issue to the last user from the specified role that had this issue assigned before.

Refer to https://innovalog.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/JMWEC/pages/94142506/Assign+to+last+role+member