Is there a way to enforce a transition validator?

[Joshua McFarland]

I have a status called In Progress and transition to the status called Step 1. My intention was to force a assignee field validator. When I look at an issue it shows both the status and transition, which would easily allow someone to completely skip the validator. Is there a way to transition to a status and always enforce the validator?

Example Issue:

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Workflow:

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[Jeremy Gaudet · Accepted solution]

I think the reason you can get to "In Progress" from "Unassigned", bypassing "Step 1", is because you have "All->In Progress".

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I think you've misunderstood what you have set up here.

JIRA is not showing you a transition and a step, it is showing you two transitions.  One is called "in progress" and the other you have named "step 1".  The "in progress" one is a "global" transition that lets you transition into that status from anywhere in the workflow, and it's labelled simply with "all" in the diagram.

I don't know if you intended to have two transitions (it can be useful), but if you want to force a mandatory field, you will need to add it to both transitions.

The other option is to delete an unnecessary transition.  Do you need "step 1"?  As you already have "all"?

[Joshua McFarland]

Thanks for the help. I suppose I was not clearly understanding what was actually going on. In any case, removing the "all" label as @Jeremy Gaudet mentioned solved the problem. I originally has it labelled as "all" because I wanted things from my "finished" status to be able to go back to "in progress". I now realize can just add that workflow in manually though.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's not a label, it's a global transition from all status into that status.  Removing the second transition is probably the right thing to do.  And if you need the finished -> in-progress, you could add an explicit single one that only does that, rather than "all"