how to do default group assigne in a workflow transition

[S]

Hi All,

Please suggest me, how I can achieve a default group assignee at a particular workflow transition (post function).

For making group assignee, I've created a group picker with custom notification and atatched to all the screens.

Thanks,

Sanu P Soman

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

From your post, I just want to check that you've got a group-picker field called "group assignee" (because if that's wrong, you can probably ignore my answer)

>Please suggest me, how I can achieve a default group assignee at a particular workflow transition (post function).

You can't. A default is a setting to be used in the absence of user input, and the way select list fields work, you need to work out and select the default before presenting the field to the user. By it's nature, a post-function runs AFTER the user has been through the screen and committed data, so it's far too late to be trying to set a default.

A post function is the right place to set the value based on what the user has put in though - is that what you are trying to do? For example, "if user leaves the field as <none> then set it to group-called-fred".

[S]

I mentioed "Post-Function" is because auto update will happpen to the assignee of the issue after a transition by post-function option, by selecting "update issue field" in that menu.

So like that how I can achieve a particular group to group assignee (custom group picker) in an issue after a transition.

[S]

Yes ... absolutely. I found same plugin details in some blogs and I'm going to install this. Thanks for your time.

Cheers,

Sanu P Soman

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm not sure I am reading this correctly, apologies if I am misunderstanding

There's two things you seem to be talking about (and we can forget the word "default" as you're not really talking about defaults)

1) You want to assign to a group, using the assignee field. I won't repeat what Thomas and Renjith have said, other than to say "Jira doesn't do that". You have to use a custom field for it.

2) Assuming you want to run with the custom field, then you need to write or find a plugin that can set a custom field. Jira doesn't have a custom field updater installed off-the-shelf. I usually use the one in the Jira Suite Utilities - it provides a function "update custom field"

[Renjith Pillai]

Or create a user in Jira with the email ID of the group and call the user with the group name.

[S]

Getting mailing list created is a big headache here .. So pls suggest some other if possible .. pls .. Thanks

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi,

you cannot assign an issue to a group, if that is what you want to do.

Best regards

Thomas