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Power Actions™ for Jira

Level:  INTERMEDIATE

Problem

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Problem

You want to lock an issue

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and ensure that only the issue assignee

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can

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edit it.

Tip

Power Actions™ allows an assignee 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.

Solution

To solve this problem, you can use Power Actions™ and the Issue Security Scheme.

Solution

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Begin by creating two actions: Lock and Unlock

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.

  • The Lock action

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  • sets the security level to Locked.

  • The Unlock action

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  • sets the security level back to none.

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Info

The actions are only visible to the issue assignee.

Create the security level

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Create the security level

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as below:

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Create the actions

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Create the Lock and Unlock actions.

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For the conditions, we will disable the Lock button if the security level is already Locked, and disable the Unlock button if the security level is empty. Of course, we will only show the buttons to the current assignee.

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

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;

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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;
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 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
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, set the issue security to Locked
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. For the Unlock button
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, set it to none.
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Lock button script
 Code Block
securityLevel = "Locked";
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Unlock button script
 Code Block
 securityLevel = "";
Testing
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Now you can test.
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You can set the value of 
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the User picker custom field to Allowed user instead of Current assignee. Also, you can change the value of the custom field to 
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 Current user when locking an issue
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. This also resolves a common problem
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 that users have encountered using Jira. 
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