Is there a way to set up status (NOT transitions) to be limited to specific group or role?

[Tzirel Shaffren]

Desired goal: I would like eliminate all transitions for Jira issue statuses and limit the actual status by role or group (thus eliminating the spider web of transitions).

Is there a way to do this?

Update: I stumbled upon this property: jira.permission.transition.{user} - would that do it?

Alternatively: Is there some built in Jira functionality that can create a transitions between all states (so that the limit can be associated with the transition instead of the status)?

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Tzirel,

The way to control access to Statuses is done by controlling the transitions to the statuses. So, no, there is no way to do away with transitions and only uses statuses. 

As for allowing all statuses to go to all statuses, yes, you can do that by using the ALL transitions. To add that, click on the Status in the workflow, and then in the popup to the right, check the box for Allow all statuses to transition to this one. Then you can control access to that transition using Conditions.

[Tzirel Shaffren]

Wait, what?! You mean if I set the transitions to "All", I can then add a condition! That is awesome. Thank you!

[John Funk]

Correct!

[Alex Koxaras -Relational- · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tzirel Shaffren 

You can only prohibit people/users/groups/roles to use transitions which lead to statuses. In order for your requirement to work, I would assume that you need to create multiple transitions from each status to others, and use conditions to regulate which groups can use certain transitions.

[Tzirel Shaffren]

Thank you so much for your answer. Would you know if there's a chance that adding this property to the Status itself might do the trick:
 jira.permission.transition.{user|group}

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

That should do the trick! But try it after placing the workflow property.

[Tzirel Shaffren]

Thank you so much for your answer :)