How to require story points only for User Stories during a transition

[Dean Del Ponte]

Developers work with multiple Issue Types (bug, task, user story, etc).

While grooming the backlog, once a story has been discussed and is ready for development it is transitioned to the 'Ready for Development' state by selecting it from a drop down.

I would like to require that story points be entered when transitioning a user story (and only a user story) to 'Ready for Development'.

I see how I can do this for all issue types, but I'm not sure how to do it only for user stories.

All help is appreciated

[Ashkan Malekly · Accepted solution]

Hii @Dean Del Ponte 

If you want to have just one workflow, you can add a parallel transition on workflow and then on one of them defines a condition that issutype = story and your desire validator (story point must be required) and on another transition define a condition like issuetype != story without any validator

[Dean Del Ponte]

Very innovative approach!  I think I may give that a try.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Dean Del Ponte  -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I believe that you can do that using workflow validators.  Please see this documentation for more information:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/advanced-workflow-configuration-776636620.html#Advancedworkflowconfiguration-validators

Best regards,

Bill

[Dean Del Ponte]

Yes, it's true that I can add a workflow validator requiring story points be entered for all issue types during the transition, but I only want the validator to be required for user stories.

I could create separate workflows for each issue type and create a validator for the User Story issue type, but this would become a maintenance nightmare.

Maybe I'm missing something?

[Bill Sheboy]

Yes, you would need different workflows by issue type because you want the field to be mandatory (and use the validator) for only one type: user stories.  Although in all other things you could make the workflows identical, and so making board configuration easier.