How to assign custom roles to Epic?

[Arbak Martirosyan]

Hello, 

Question is following: 

We want to have default Owner, Assignee and QA roles for the epics and tasks that are created in the project. It's clear with assignee, and I know how to create custom fields with user picker, BUT: 

• we need QA field to be autopopulated with Epic's default QA on the task create screen
• when a status of the task is changed, we need QA to be notified about it (and ideally autoassign issue to him). 

Is this possible in Jira cloud? 

[Petter Gonçalves · Accepted solution]

Hello Arbak,

Thank you for raising this question.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that JIRA does not have such functionality, however, there are a few options to achieve it by using some plugins.

Per your description, the best option to copy the QA user from the Epic when creating a task issue would be using the plugin Automation for JIRA and configuring the following rule.

P.S: I used the assignee field because I don't have the QA custom field:

For your second request, another rule from the same plugin can give you this option.

P.S: you will be able to find the QA custom field in the field To: