JIRA. Creating ticket. Change assignee which is predefined in Workflow.

[Ivan Kovnatsky]

Hey fellas.

Could you please advice if one can change default assignee, which is defined in workflow on "Create Issue" transition?

The purpose is that: normally to create tickets with assigned to `nobody-user', and be able to change assignee if possible?

Thank you,

Ivan.

[T I]

You could do a groovy script and append it as a post-function in your workflow in the "Create"-transition.

For that you need the Script Runner Plugin that can be find on the Atlassian marketplace.

[Ivan Kovnatsky]

Tomasz,

I think this must be the way, but I just thought I could do it simply with JIRA tools

[Fahd]

Hi Ivan,

You can add a post function(Update Issue Field) in Create transition in the workflow to assign issue created to specific user - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Workflow+Configuration#AdvancedWorkflowConfiguration-Postfunctions

To find the Create transition, you can click on the first transition in your workflow and find it in the next page.

Cheers,
Fahd

[Ivan Kovnatsky]

Hello Muhammad,

Thing is I configured workflow so if person didn't change (in fact even if he/she changes assignee), post function "Update Issue Field" anyway assigned it to predefined user, for me it's `nobody'.

And Project Manager wants to be able to change assignee, or leave it to `nobody' if he desires to change assignee later, that's the case.

[T I]

The anwser here should help: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/146187/can-i-change-my-default-assignee-to-be-someone-other-than-the-project-lead

[Ivan Kovnatsky]

Tomasz,

Thank you for the fast feedback.  I'll take a look.