How do I assign a ticket to a queue or group?

[Justin Sebastian]

How do I assign a ticket to a queue or group? I setup queue's that only see tickets assigned to a specific group. I want to assign it to that and then let members of the group assign the ticket to themselves but I only see the ability to assign a ticket to an individual.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You don't. The assignee is a single user, and that is the end of the story. You can have a separate group-assignee filed, and you could play tricks with dummy users, but you can not assign directly to a group (there is some debate to be had about this being good or bad, but in my experience, group assignees end up as a simple bucket of stuff that gets ignored because it doesn't have a specified owner)

[Bruna Griebeler]

Hi Justin,

You'll have to create a custom field (group picker). Please take a look here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/How+do+I+assign+issues+to+multiple+users

Let us know if that's what you're looking for.

[Justin Sebastian]

I dont understand this reponse. lets say all emails to a support email create a ticket. Then the group monitoring this bucket either assigns the ticket to someone on the support team or if the ticket should be handled by DBA's or NOC, etc how do they get the ticket in a queue for DBA's instead of assigning it to a specific person in that group which is the logical thing to do.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, I understand the theory, but it doesn't work in real life. If you assign to a group, all of your potentially responsible users don't care, they can say "it was someone else who should have picked it up". I've seen the process fail so frequently and so thoroughly, I have no confidence in the idea any more.

But, you've got loads of options. The three baseline ones are

1. Have a dummy user in the group and beat it into the users that they should reassign to a real person as soon as possible
2. Allow unassigned users and use a group field, again, beating it into them that unassigned issues need to be reassigned as soon as possible
3. Nominate someone as "they who triage" and assign to them every time. Then it's up to them to reassign as needed

These all leave you with historical and reportable data on who did (or more usefully, who failed to pick up) the initial assignment