How to set the default value of the assignee field to current user?

[Tomas Arguinzones taart1]

At creation assignee field is set to Automatic and that is really confusing to users. I need that to be either current user or empty. I have JIRA 6.2.2 and the behaviour plugin is not available for that version of JIRA. Any way how to accomplish that?

[Theinvisibleman]

I think that it would be possible to make the assignee automatically be set to the current user via the post-functions in the workflow. There should be a 'Assign to Current User' post-function that you can add to the 'Create Issue' transition I believe

[Tomas Arguinzones taart1]

Hi Joe,

Thank you for your answer. I can not do it with post-functions since users should be able to change the assignee at creation of an issue

[Tomas Arguinzones taart1]

Hi,

anyone has any idea how to implement this? I basically need that when the Create Issue screen appears the Assignee field shows pre-populated with the curent user (or even Null will do).

Thank you

[Tomas Arguinzones taart1]

Hi,

just updating this...it seems there is no way to accomplish this