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Problem

You can use Power Actions™ and the Issue Security Scheme want to lock an issue and ensure that only the issue assignee can edit it.

Tip

Power Actions™ offers the possibility of allows an assignee locking an issue without needing to grant them to lock an issue (with only logging work or commenting on the issue possible), without the need to Set Issue Security Level or have the Edit issue permission (only logging work or commenting on the issue).

Solution

To lock an issue, you must first create solve this problem, you can use Power Actions™ and the Issue Security Scheme.

Begin by creating two actions: Lock and Unlock. The actions are only visible to the issue assignee.

  • The Lock action sets the security level to Locked.

  • The Unlock action sets the security level back to none.

Info

The actions are only visible to the issue assignee.

Create the security level

Create the security level as below:

Create the actions

Create the Lock and Unlock actions.

Click Edit conditions. Enter the below following scripts for each action. The

Lock
button is disabled if the security level is already Locked. The Unlock
button
is disabled if the security level is blank.

The buttons are only visible to the current assignee.

Lock button
condition script
Code Block
number ENABLED = 1;
number DISABLED = 2;
number HIDDEN = 3;

if( assignee != currentUser()) {
 return HIDDEN;
}

if( securityLevel == "Locked" ){
 	return DISABLED;
}
return ENABLED;
Unlock button condition script
Code Block
number ENABLED = 1;
number DISABLED = 2;
number HIDDEN = 3;

if( assignee != currentUser()) {
 return HIDDEN;
}

if(isNull(securityLevel)) {
 	return DISABLED;
}
return ENABLED;
Now create the action scripts
 Info
The Lock button is disabled if the security level is already Locked. The Unlock button is disabled if the security level is Null. 
The buttons are only visible to the current assignee.
For the Lock button, set the issue security to Locked. For the Unlock button, set it to none.
Lock button script
 Code Block
securityLevel = "Locked";
Unlock button script
 Code Block
 securityLevel = "";
Testing
Now you can test.
 Info
You can set the value of the User picker custom field to Allowed user instead of Current assignee. Also, you can change the value of the custom field to Current user when locking an issue. This also resolves a common problem that users have encountered using Jira. 
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