How to make Epic Link a Required Field?

[Courtney Ashton]

When creating an issue, I want to force my users to have to fill in the epic link field. 

Currently in "custom fields" you cannot make Epic Link required like you can other fields. 

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

Hi Courtney,

I'd recommend you to make it required on the create issue transition as described in the JIRA knowledgebase.

You can see also this question for more answers.

Cheers,
Matthias

[Courtney Ashton]

Thank you for the doc, but when I go to edit a validator there is nothing that pop ups that says "select Fields Required" . All I see are these 3 options: 1) Permission Validator 2) Script Validator 3) User Permission Validator . I select Script Validator > Field(s) change validator  and in the box where it says to select a field to be enforced the field box is empty    What am I doing wrong?Screen Shot 2016-08-03 at 1.30.16 PM.png

[Matthias Gaiser _K15t_]

Which version of JIRA are you using? I checked in a JIRA Server 6.2 and also on a JIRA Cloud instance and they both have a "Field Required Validator". See below list of validators for my JIRA Cloud instance.

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[Amit Anand]

I am using JIRA v7.9.2  in this version also "Field Required Validator" option is not visible.

Please let me know if we have any alternative approach

[luiz.duarte]

At Jira Server v7.10 I don´t have "Field required Validator" too.

[Saeid]

Hi all,

Thx for this post.

It works on my jira cloud version. BUT just during the creation.

When moving a issue from one project to another, no check is performed.

any suggestion ?

grtz,

[Lorraine Gorman]

Did you find a solution to this @Saeid?  We need to also make Epic Link required across the board (not just on create or transition) and I have not found a way.

[Saeid]

Hi

no, I did not. I tried a lot ...

i made this field mandatory with create and change issue. 

Grtz