Replace default assignee field

[Wolfgang Reis]

hi,

is it possible to replace the default assignee field with other custom fields.

And if yes, how?

wolfgang

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Hide the assignee and use your own custom user-picker. You'll probably find you don't want to do it though, the assignee field is heavily used by all sorts of stuff in Jira, so you'll be sacrificing a lot of reporting and feedback options.

I don't think that's really what you want to do though. Could you explain why you think you want to do this? There's probably a much better way to do what you need.

[Wolfgang Reis]

I need in dependency of the current user different content in the field assignee.

example:

current user = tester1 ==> field assignee contains all members of group tester

current user = developer1 ==> field assignee contains all members of group developer

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm not sure I understand that. Do you mean you want to limit the list of possible assignees to a group, depending on the current user?

If that's the case, you can't do it with any built-in field, and removing the assignee field is a red-herring. This is quite a complex requirement, and it's going to need some coding.