When a user transitioned an issue to 'In Progress', how to assign the issue to this user?

[Jakob Nikolaschin]

Dear Community!

I want to write a script with Jira Cloud Scriptrunner for the following problem:

When a user transitioned an issue to 'In Progress', this user should be assigned to the issue.

I know, that you can get the current user with

def currentUser = get('/rest/api/2/myself').asObject(Map)

and the field of the assigned user with

def assignee = issue.fields.assignee

 The event, that triggers the script, should be 'Issue Updated', right?

My problem is, how do I know if the issue got transitioned to 'In Progress' from a different workflow state (e.g. from 'Review')?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

[Mayur Jadhav · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jakob Nikolaschin ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!!!

Instead of using script runner the out of the box you can achieve it through either post function or Automation rule.

Atlassian has created details documentation on how to assign issue automatically when issue is transitioned with both the methods.

• How to automatically change the assignee when transitioning the workflow

Thanks,
Mayur

[Jakob Nikolaschin]

Hey @Mayur Jadhav ,

Thank you for your answer. But we already have that Automation rule. Our target is to switch to a script solution on this automation. Is there a possibilioty to do so?