Hiding or disabling Security Level Field from editing if not the issue assignee or reporter

[John Bradley]

I have recently created a security level scheme for a project where the issue can be Private (only the assignee or reporter can see it) or Public (all users can see it).  It works as intended when creating the issue and not allowing it to be viewed by anyone other than the reporter or assignee when the issue is private.

What doesn't work well is when the issue is Public anyone can mark it as Private.  I would only want the assignee or the reporter to be able to change the security level if it is created with a Public security level.

I looked into automation to see if there was a way to check who the viewer or editor is and not allow the Security level to be seen or edited but I could not find a way to make this happen.

Thanks in advance to anyone who has a possible solution.

[Kai Becker · Accepted solution]

Hi @John Bradley 

welcome to the community and thank you for your question.
You could try to limit the edit permissions by using workflow properties: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/use-workflow-properties/

This way you could limit the modification in every state. setsecurity would be the permission you should look after

[John Bradley]

Thank you - I think I found the solution - the permissions scheme was set to let anyone edit an issue, when it should have been set to assignee, reporter, or jira admin.