How can I automatically assign an issue to the previous assignee?

[Mike Sorensen]

For several of our states, we have a custom field to remember who made the transition, such as "Fixed By" or "Reviewed By". Then if we need to reopen a bug, we automatically assign it, Assignee = Fixed By person

[Renee Kirk]

So does that mean that the only way to accomplish automatically assigning an issue to the previous assignee is to capture that person's ID in a custom field, and then through the post function assign the issue to the person identified in that custom field?

[M]

Hello Mike,

what type is your custom field for the previous assignees? Thank you very much.

Monika

[Priyanka Lavania]

This can also be done using Assign to last role member in script runner post function

[MikeyS]

The JIRA Misc Workflow Extensions add-on from Innovalog has an Assign to last role member post-function that can do this.  I'm not positive, but I believe this post-function is included in the cloud version of the add-on.