How to allow anonymous users to create only particular issue type?

[David Finney]

I have an issue type for a particular JIRA project named Public inquiry. There are other issue types but I want the anonymous users to be able to create only Public inquiry issue types and nothing else. How can I do that?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can't, technically. Jira allows anyone with "Create" to create any issue type.

There are workarounds of course. Writing or scripting a quick validator to check and reject entries based on issue type is one approach. Another one I've used in the past is a kludge with a bad error message, but avoids coding - remove the due-date from the "create" screen for all issue types except "public inquiry", give "schedule" permission to logged in users only, and then make it mandatory. Anonymous users will get an ugly error message, but won't be able to create anything other than that issue type. I only did that while waiting for developers to give me a validator that works.

You can also play tricks with javascript, but they are quite easy to bypass if someone is determined to do so.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can't, technically. Jira allows anyone with "Create" to create any issue type.

There are workarounds of course. Writing or scripting a quick validator to check and reject entries based on issue type is one approach. Another one I've used in the past is a kludge with a bad error message, but avoids coding - remove the due-date from the "create" screen for all issue types except "public inquiry", give "schedule" permission to logged in users only, and then make it mandatory. Anonymous users will get an ugly error message, but won't be able to create anything other than that issue type. I only did that while waiting for developers to give me a validator that works.

You can also play tricks with javascript, but they are quite easy to bypass if someone is determined to do so.

[RambanamP]

another way is by creating a project with only one issuetype and by adding the Anyone group to the Browse Project and Create Issue permissions in the permission scheme for the project

check this it will help you

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Allowing+users+to+create+issues+anonymously

[Michael King]

Which is useless, because creating issues apparently requires a reporter, even if you remove the field from the screen.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, you've made reporter mandatory (that is the default of course). You can make it optional - check the field configurations

[Michael King]

Which is disturbingly difficult to find. Thanks for the tip.

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Hi David

You could try using an issue collector, there is no other way to limit access to certain issue types in a project.

Some more information about issue collectors can be found here : https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Using+the+Issue+Collector

Best regards,

Peter