Making a field required based on another field's answer?

[Jane Ellis]

Hello! I am attempting to locate a behavior script for scriptrunner for Jira Cloud.

Use case scenario:

When an issue is set to highest or high priority, we want to require another field to be filled in that is getting missed. I'm hoping this is possible with behaviors for scriptrunner in Jira Cloud, but I have been unsuccessful in writing or locating a script that will do this. 

Thanks in advance!

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Jane Ellis 

Are you trying to set the field to be required while the issue is being created? Or are you talking about the Priority being changed after the issue has been created?

Evaluation of other fields Required state is not evaluated when the issue is being edited since all editing is now done in Jira Cloud inline. Only the field that is being edited can be evaluated during the Edit operation to see if it is required.

Behaviours can be used to conditionally make a field Required only in the Create Issue dialog.

[Jane Ellis]

On creation, preferably. I knew it would be an issue during editing. 

[Trudy Claspill]

Did you try a script similar to the example provided in the Behaviours documentation?

https://docs.adaptavist.com/sr4jc/latest/features/behaviours/example-behaviour#make-field-required-when-select-list-value-selected

[Crystal Baker]

I have accomplished this using jira workflow conditions and validators.

If my condition checkbox called "needs ops review" is checked, then the field "ops reviewer" is required (validator).
 

[Crystal Baker]

I should clarify -- if they don't provide the required field then the workflow step won't get completed (in your case, "create issue."