Making custom field items mandatory or optional applied as validator to a transition

[Akhil Kanaskar]

I recently implemented a custom field validator on a workflow transition.

my custom field items list are start, stop,restart, now when a user moves a issue to close issue state he has to select the items of custom field.

Can we make the some items of the custum field mandatory , so that if the user has to check mark all mandatory items of the custom field to close a issue?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Yes. In the same way you've done the existing mandatory fields. (I'm not sure there's actually a question here - could you explain if I've missed something?)

[Akhil Kanaskar]

I am not asking to make a custom field mandatory ..... for eg i have custom filed(with checkboxes) as DOD in which i have 3 items start, stop , restart. So is it possible that i make start and stop as mandatory so that whenever a user tries to close a issue he will have to mark start and stop from the custome field options so that he is able to close the issue . if the user doesnt mark start and stop while closing it should fail giving a message that you need to mark the mandatory fields in order to close this issue

[Akhil Kanaskar]

yeah rite i want to make items mandatory .... is there a way you know how to make it happen?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Er, that seems to say "I don't want to make the fields mandatory, I just want to make them mandatory". Which is it?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Use a validator, as you already said.

If you're writing your own, you can put whatever rules you need in it as well - not just "field must be filled", but things like "if <something is true>, then the field must be filled, otherwise let the user leave it blank"