Controlling Who Can Move Items Between Swimlanes?

[Ryan Zore]

Hello,

My use case involves the need to control who can move an item from Needs Testing to -> Tested. 

Specifically we need to make sure that the person who moved the item into Needs Testing cannot move it into Tested.  

I have looked at the setting up swimlanes documentation and was not able to find any info on how to do this.  

Thanks in advance.

-Ryan

[Ryan Zore]

Thanks folks, I am looking into the separation of duties condition now to see if that will fit. If not, I will look at what can be scripted. 

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

When you move an issue between columns, you execute workflow transitions. That is why you should add a condition to the required transitions, which would block the execution of these transitions.

I think you would need an add-on for it. 

For example you could use the Power Scripts add-on to write such a condition:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/43318/power-scripts-jira-script-automation?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

[Jack Brickey]

@Ryan Zore, this is controlled via the workflow. If you have admin rights then you can edit the workflow and set up a condition on the specific transition from 'Needs Testing' --> 'Tested'. There are a couple conditions you could consider:

• Only Assignee - if the only person that can perform the transition is the assignee this works well
• Permission Condition - anyone that has the specified permissions can execute the transition
• Separation of Duties condition - Condition preventing a user to perform the transition, if the user has already performed a transition on the issue
• User is in Group - you can define a group of folks allowed and then use this condition to restrict

there are others so have a look at adding a Condition to the specific transition.

[Jack Brickey]

NOTE: if this is Next-gen project there is no Workflow. maybe the manage rules function can accommodate but would be surprised.