Restrict issue linking to a filter

[Joan Andreu Juan Torrens]

I am trying to let users to create an issue and link it to another issue but in a restricted way, as what I pretend is that they can link it to issues resulting of apply a filter.

Is that possible? I am not finding it....

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

Hi Joan,

To the best of my knowledge this is not something that you can natively in either Jira Cloud or Jira Server.   The issue linking there is designed to be open to the point that any user with permission in that project to link issues, and link it to any other issue that they have permissions to at least view.

Restricting that user's permissions here to remove their issue linking abilities would not be helpful if you still want to them to link to some specific issues.    I did find an old Jira Cloud feature request that sounds similar to your request over in JRACLOUD-9634.  While this has been closed as something that Atlassian is not intending to implement, I did come across a comment there that seems to indicate someone has created a 3rd party plugin to try to manage this specific use case. 

Easy Links for Jira appears to offer the ability to restrict issue linking based on a JQL search.  However it appears to be a Server only plugin.  Which probably won't help you in Cloud for this use case.

I did come across another feature request that I think is more in line with what you are looking for in JRACLOUD-59123.   While this does not have a work-around, I would recommend watching and voting on this feature if this is something you would like to see.  Doing so helps our team prioritize new features and can keep you up to date on changes regarding this feature or other work-arounds.

Regards,

Andy

[Joan Andreu Juan Torrens]

Hi Andy!

Excellent reply! Thanks a lot. Yeah I supposed this kind of behave it is not the original purpose of Jira issue linking. It may be useful to me at this point though.

Anyway, Thanks a lot for your answer!