How to make the 'Assignee' field required when 'Allow unassigned issues' is turn ON in General Configuration?

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The 'Assignee' field is required or automatically assigned by default when 'Allow unassigned issues' is turn OFF in Administration > General Configuration.

If it set as ON, user will be allow to choose the 'unassigned' option and this affect every project in JIRA. In certain use case, some project might need the Assignee field to be required and "unassign" is not an option.

In such case, there is not way to do it by default in JIRA, however this can be achieve by using a third party plugin call  JIRA Suite Utilities , which has a set of conditions and validations to personalize workflow of JIRA.


To perform that:

  1. Install the JIRA Suite Utilities. For install the plugin please refer to: Managing JIRA's Plugins#InstallingaJIRAPlugin
  2. Use the 'Fields Required' validator function in your specified transition. Please refer to: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JSUTIL/JIRA+Suite+Utilities+Workflow+Validators
     
  3. Add the 'Assignee' field  as required. 
Last modified on Jun 12, 2013

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