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[Michael_Bannen]

Hello,

We have JIRA for the Cloud and are wondering if we can limit the creation of and Epic type to only a certain group?

Thank you

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Similar discussion was had yesterday - see https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/45948115

[Oleksandr Shatov]

Thanks!

[Michael_Bannen]

I'm not sure they answer my question because in the response,"In the post-function of the "create" transition of the issue workflow you can add validations to check if the user belongs to the group which can create the task issues or vice-versa"  The way permissions are broken down is if a person can create an issue type, he can create ALL issue types including Epics.  We want to limit a group to create all BUT Epics. If this can happen "out of the box" then fine but if programming or scripting is involved then it might not be a viable solution for us.

Please advise.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, that's the point of the answer.  Off the shelf, you can't configure this - if a user can create, they can create.  But you can set up a workflow that fails a validator and hence stops someone creating a certain type. 

[Michael_Bannen]

Which validator checks the issue type against a group?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There aren't any.  What you want is to check that the user matches a group.  I don't know if there are validators available on Cloud that can do that.

[Deepali Bagul]

Thanks @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I use the validator user in the field (reporter) should be at least in one of the project roles (admin, PM) on the create issue . It worked for jira server.

[Ulrich Agricola]

[Jira Software v7.5.3]

Hi all,

looks like this is exactly what I need!

As far as I understand, the settings need to be done in "Project settings - Issue types - Epic", then edit the transition "create" in epics workflow.

Unfortunately I cannot find any corresponding setting neither in "Validators" nor "Post Functions".  Validators only allow:

• Category is not Empty
• File Uploader is User
• File Uploader is in Group
• File Uploader is in Project Role
• Issue Matches Structure Query
• Permission Validator
• User Permission Validator
• Verify Number of Attachments in Category

I tried "Issue Matches Structure Query", but cannot lay hold on reporters role with a query ...

Could you please explain, which setting you used to achieve e.g. only jira-administrators can create epics?

Many thanks in advance

Regards
Uli