How to edit an issue in jira without changing the assignee if its account is disabled?

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

How to edit an issue in jira without changing the assignee if its account is disabled?

I got this request from some jira-users. While, they understood that this may be a feature, still they have a proper use case where they want to update some fields for closed tickets, and not have the asignee changed.

Is this a bug and the asignee checking should be done only for open tickets?

[Timothy · Accepted solution]

Try these things:

1. Closed issues cannot be edited
2. Check the issue permission on who can edit the issue

[Vishnukumar Vasudevan]

We can enable editing of closed issues, just need to change the step property.

[Vishnukumar Vasudevan]

Depends on the version you use. Latest releases have new feature called in-line editing. Hope this will help you.