Scrum Rapid Board - auto assign on transition doesn't appear to be working?

[Prem Mariappan]

Hi,

I was unable to transition some story cards from "To Do" to "In Progress", but was able to move all directly to "Done". After comparing stories that I could transition to "In Progress" with those I couldn't it became clear that those stories were unassigned.

I've checked the following field in GreenHopper's global settings:

<input id="autoOn" style="vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" type="checkbox" checked="checked"/> <label for="autoOn">Auto assign - Enable the auto assign on card transition in the TaskBoard</label>

But it appears that it doesn't have any effect in the Rapid Board (but does work in GH's Task Board).

Is it meant to work?

Thanks.

Prem.

[sclowes · Accepted solution]

Hi Prem,

At the moment this feature is not implemented on the Rapid Board, it's something we'd like to tackle in the future however.

Thanks,
Shaun

[Prem Mariappan]

Thanks for your quick response Shaun. No worries, not a big drama to work around.

[N. Driessen]

You can just update your workflow, add a post function on the transitions "auto assign to current user". This will work everywhere in JIRA that way, not just on a rapidboard. In my opinion this is the better implementation for this anyway, as you want consistent behaviour whatever way a user is using...

[TJ Baker]

Thanks for the tip. Wil this not affect when transitioning back to 'Reopened', though? If a manager were to move something that someone resolved too soon, for instance, we'd not want the manager who moved it to Reopened to be assigned the ticket.