Can I allow only selected people to move from one column to the other in Active Sprint tab?

[Katarzyna Piskorska]

Hi, I was wondering can I permit only few people to move issues from Under Review column to the Done column in Active Sprints tab? 

I have company managed project and I want to allow only admins to move from one column to the other. 

I've checked in column settings and permissions in project settings but I want to restrict moving issues only on two columns not everything. 

Is that even possible?

Thanks in advance 

[Igor Dugalic · Accepted solution]

Hi Katarzyna,

you can set up a Condition in the transition to the "Done" status in the Workflow settings.

Permission Condition (Condition to allow only users with certain permission to execute a transition.) or User Is In Group/User Is In Project Role.

But this will affect all issues that are using the Workflow, it will not make a distinction if the issue is in an active sprint or not.

If it's strictly for the "Active Sprint" you would need an additional If statement that needs to be checked before the Conditions and this can not be achieved with the standard use, could be possible with Scriptrunner or Jira Misc Workflow Extensions (JMWE).

Best,

Igor

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Yes you can add a condition to any transitions between statuses and since statuses are mapped to columns in a board that would achieve you goal. Though I find it a bit odd that you would desire this given agile principles but maybe your environment supports this model. 

To add conditions...

1. project settings > workflows
2. edit workflow and click on the desired transitions and in the modal pop up choose Condition 
3. choose the condition to restrict transition 
4. use group/role
5. publish workflow when done.

understand that this will prevent users from transitioning issues if the are not in the group/role.

[Aleksandar.Petrov]

Also, as there will be two workflows active and one has to be edited. 
I'd add:

6. Untick "Allow issues in any status to move to this one" (it shows up when you click on the "done" status at the bottom right corner). Alternatively you can also delete the initial workflow "Any status - Done" at the end.