Disable creating a new version from the issue screen

[rburgstaller]

Hi

I am looking for a way to prevent users from creating a new "fixVersion" when editing an issue. It should be possible to choose among the already created versions but it should not be possible to create a new version from this screen.

My initial thought was that creating a new version requires a specific permission but this does not seem to be the case.

Is there a way to do that anyway? maybe via a validator or something like that?

[Geert Graat · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You need to have the administer project permission to create a new version. Also, you cannot do that directly from an issue, but you need to create version beforehand using the project administration. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Versions#ManagingVersions-Managingaproject'sversions for reference.

If I read your question, my guess would be that instead of the default fixVersion field you use something different (custom field/changed configuration)? For instance a label field will allow you to specify any new label when editing an issue. Could you check the fixVersion configuration?

Regards,

Geert

[Udo Brand]

since JIRA 6.3 you can add versions on the fly: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+6.3+Release+Notes

[Geert Graat]

Cool! I did not know that. You still need to have the administer project permission to do that.

[rburgstaller]

You are totally correct. I was hunting for a specific permission that controls versioning and since I was signed in as admin, it allowed me to create a new version. My bad, thanks a lot!

[Mike Gould]

This does not answer the question

[NunoS]

Was there an answer for this?

[Tomasz Przychodzki]

Please unmark this as accepted answer since it is not the answer to the question.

[tony wong]

For users that don't have project administrator access. they should not be able to on the fly create a version from the Fix version field. 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/In-Jira-how-can-I-restrict-the-option-that-every-user-will-add/qaq-p/1025708