allow all users to view assignee, but not edit it

[Cristina Santamaria]

Hi, I am trying to set up my project so that anyone who can view an issue, can see who the current assignee is. I don't want anyone to be able to edit the assignee, unless it's through a transition, and there, only certain groups can transition.

What I have found, is if we try to restrict who can edit the Assignee field, then only they can see the Assignee field, which does not work for us.

I've come up with a work around, but I don't like it. I've created a new field "CurrentAssignee" and on each transition, I use a post function to copy Assignee into CurrentAssignee.

This would be fine if there were just a few transitions, but the workflow has about 15-20 transitions, and that is just 1 workflow out of 5. Was hoping for a better solution.

thank you

Cristina

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Take a look at the project's permission scheme, in there, you will find a pair of permissions which are

• Can be assigned issues
• Can assign issues

You need to cut down the list of people with the second permission to achieve this.

This does however, only apply to company-managed projects.  You can't do it in team-managed projects.

[Cristina Santamaria]

I tried that, but it doesn't do what my team wants. Unless I'm doing it incorrectly.

what we found was, that the people in the 2nd group can edit and view the "assignee", so it works, however only those people can "view" assignee, and we want everyone to know who the issue is with, just not be able to change it.

that is why I came up with the field that is a copy of assignee...