Is it possible to preselect assignee on issue resolution screen?

[Vadim Lotarev]

I know that it is possible to assign issue to reporter as a transition post action but I want to preselect assignee to reporter in dropdown on issue resolution screen giving user an ability to change that selection if necessary. Is it possible to do that?

[Edwin Chan · Accepted solution]

A combination of javascript and velocity inside a Velocity Message Custom Field in JIRA Toolkit should do the trick.

- use velocity to get the reporter username

- use javascript to set the drop down to the reporter's username

[Vadim Lotarev]

Thank you for the answer. I looked at the Message Custom Field - this seems to be just a read-only HTML field. Should I get list of users with Velosity and than construct HTML select from it? How to tell where to store selected value in Jira? Could you point me to any example?

[Edwin Chan]

This custom field is only used to change the selected value in your assignee list, it is not a traditional custom field where it stores a value.

Try inserting some javascript code in the default value of the custom field context. Then add the field to the screen to see the results.