Everyone creates Defects but only the boss creates Enhancements -- how?

[Brent Webster]

Subject line say it all.

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

1. For 1:
   1. You need to add a custom field in Jira of type 'Message Custom Field for Edit' (details here) and add it to the screen related to 'Enhancements' issue type create screen (details here)
   2. For the 'Default Value' of the custom field add the code as mentioned in the link
   3. Make sure that you have already a group in Jira which contains the users who should have permission to create Enhancements (which includes the boss) and use that group name in the above code uses 'employees' as the group)
2. For 2: When you are upgrading to a new Jira release, since this is a custom field created, there will not any need to re-administer this again.
3. For 3: No idea

[Brent Webster]

Interesting and again thanks for the quick reply

[Renjith Pillai]

That is achieved by following what is documented here. Basically it means, for the Enhancement issue create screen add a 'message custom field for edit' with a simple javascript to hide the Create button if the user is not part of a particular user group. And 'The Boss' alone remains in that group :)

[Brent Webster]

Thanks for the quick and excellent reply. Interesting the number of users that want this feature but Atlassian won't implement it. I'm not to familiar with updating the Java code so I have a couple of questions:

1/ What file am I editting?

2/ Will this file get overwritten on a subsequent new Jira release?

3/ Any comments on the Jira Scripting Suite using jython?