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To add a 'User Validator' to a transition:

1. Click Edit for the workflow that has the transition you wish to configure the validator on.

2. In the Workflow Designer, select the transition.

3. Click Validators in the properties panel.

4. Click  Add validator.

5. Select User Validator from the list of validators.

6. Click Add to add the validator.

7. Configure the user(s) to check and the criteria (see below).

8. Customize the Error message.

9. Click Add to add the validator to the transition.

When you add this validator to a transition and trigger the transition, the validator checks whether the configured user(s) satisfy the configured criteria, and displays a validation error message if not.

User(s) to check

You must first configure which user(s) need to be checked. You can check either the current user, or user(s) in an issue field such as Assignee, Reporter, or any user picker custom field.

• Current user: the current user will be checked

• User(s) in field: the user in the specified field, such as Assignee, Reporter, or any User Picker custom field, will be checked. If the selected field is a multi-valued field, such as Voters, Watchers, or a Multi-user Picker custom field, all users in that field will be checked, and they all need to satisfy the criteria.

Mode

You need to specify whether the user(s) to be checked must satisfy all the configured criteria or at least one.

• all the criteria configured below: each user will need to satisfy every criterion

• at least one of the criteria configured below: each user will need to satisfy at least one of the criteria

• or the field can be empty: if you select the “at least one of the criteria configured below” option and the “User(s) to check” is “User(s) in field”, you can also decide whether an empty field satisfies the validator. For example, if you are checking the Assignee field and you select the “or the field can be empty” option, the validator will succeed even if the issue is unassigned.

Criteria

You need to specify at least one criterion that the user(s) must satisfy for the validator to succeed. You can check whether each user:

• The user is:

  • the Reporter

  is

  • the Assignee

  is

  • a Watcher

  is

  • a Voter

• Project roles: The user belongs to one of the specified Project Roles in the issue’s project.

• Groups: The user belongs to one of the specified groupsbelongs to .

• Users: The user is one of a list of specific usersbelongs to a .

• User fields: The user is selected in the specified user-type field, such as a user picker custom field.

• Condition for user(s): The user satisfies a Jira expression. For each user to check, the Jira expression will be evaluated and must return true for the validation to succeed. Note that the user being checked is available through the selectedUser variable.

• Reverse condition: If this box is checked, the condition specified in Condition for user(s) must return false for the validation to succeed.

Error message

If validation fails, a default error message will display, which summarizes the reason(s) validation failed. You can customize this error message by typing a custom Error message.

Validator Scope

Select Conditional validation if you want validation to only occur in certain cases. For example. if the issue is of a certain issue type, has certain field values, or satisfies a Jira expression.