How do I prevent User Stories from being added to a closed Epic?

[Christina Olson]

My team keeps adding new user stories and associated them to closed Epics (which shouldn't be done unless I am aware and can document why).  We have already told the customer these Epics are closed and we either need to associate the user story with a different Epic or consciously reopen the Epic.  Is there a way to prevent users from adding issues to a closed Epic? 

[Puneet Khandelwal]

Finally, I have found a way to do it.

Just by setting workflow properties in the Done status of the Epic workflow hides both the button ("Add Issues to Epic" and "+" button)

Jira workflow property key - jira.permission.create.denied

Jira workflow property value - denied

For more reference - 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Can-we-restrict-child-creation-under-an-Epic-when-the-Epic-is-in/qaq-p/1744336

[Klára Zikešová]

nice, but still able to create subtask under the epic though... :-(

[Joseph HANI]

Hello @Klára Zikešová 

Have you found a way by any chance ? 

Thanks you 

[Klára Zikešová]

Hi, well it is a looong time, but I think I did, just cannot remeber how, sorry. But there is a suggestion to make work such property and you can vote here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-10077

[Trudy Claspill]

Setting the jira.issue.editable property is not enough. That will prevent you from seeing the option to add a child story to the epic when you are viewing the epic. However, when creating or editing an issue you can still set the Epic Link field to an Epic that is closed.

Per this post

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Don-t-allow-choosing-closed-epics/qaq-p/813959

...there is an addon that might help. I haven't looked at the details of the addon yet.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/292/jira-misc-workflow-extensions?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview

[Gary Pasquale]

Hi @Christina Olson,

Have a look at the advanced workflow properties.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/workflow-properties-861253674.html

You need to use the jira.issue.editable property

Adding a property like this will prevent closed issues being edited. It will affect all issues unless you give epics their own workflow.

Regards,

Gary

[Aisha M]

@Gary Pasquale I m looking for a solution to the exact same problem. Can you please help me with where to add the above mentioned workflow property (which transition). Also, what group should be selected for the property. Thank you 

[shetty]

Looking for the same