How I can block start of work on blocked issue until the blocking has been resolved?

[Roman Mostyka]

Hi!

If there are two issues, one blocking and one blocked, I need to forbid to start work on blocked issue.
I've tried to find an answer here, but without success. I'm sure that there are a lot of people who implemented required behavior, therefore if anybody knows the solution, please give me advise.

Thanks,
Roman.

[Roman Mostyka · Accepted solution]

Unfortuantely it looks like this is impossible to do, though it can be very useful feature.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can do it with a plugin. Just write a workflow condition similar to subtask blocking condition.

[Jo-Anne MacLeod]

There is a "sub-task blocking" workflow condition, but I don't know of any way off the top of my head where you can have one issue block another.

[Roman Mostyka]

Thanks for the quick reply, but this is slightly diferent from what I'm looking for. I know about this condition, but as I understand it works only for sub-tasks, but I need to block workflows for standard issue which is linked as "blocked by" with another standard issue.

[Michael I.]

Roman,

you can use GroovyRunner plugin for JIRA: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Script+Runner.

When this plugin will be enabled, you`ll can create a new type of workflow conditions - "Script Condition". So you can write any condition you need.