Custom field read-only after transition

[Bharath Kumar]

Hi Fidel,

I have a scenario where I will have to make some custom fields in the issue read-only after a particular transition, can this be achieved.

Lets say I have fields field A, field B and field C and I have the following workflow

and till Initial Sizing Complete I would like the fields to be editable and after that state I want all the three fields to be read-only, can you please help me on this.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

Hi Bharath,

I can give you a solution that requires to remove the fields A, B and C from edit screen, make them editable only using a reflexive transition. I explain you the solution step by step:

1) Remove fields A, B and C from edit screen, keeping them in view screen, and create screen in case you need them to be set during issue creation. If you are currently sharing a same screen for edit operation and view and/or create you will have to create a separate screen only for edit screen.

2) Create a screen called "Restricted Edition Fields" and add fields A, B and C.

3) Create a global reflexive called "Edit special fields" (you will surely find a more suitable name) and associate "Restricted Edition Fields" screen to it.

A global transition is available from any status, and a reflexive transition has the same origin and destination status. The following screenshot shows how to create these kind of transitions.

4) "Boolean condition with math, date-time or text-string terms" to transition "Edit special fields" with the following boolean expression:

%{00016} in ["Open", "In Initial Sizing"]

Note that:

• %{00016} is field code for Issue status
• You should respect the case when writing the name of the statuses in the boolean expression. Take into account that JIRA UI usually shows the name of the statuses in upper case, but the actual name may have different case. Check the exact name of the statuses at Administration > Issues > Statuses.

[Bharath Kumar]

Thanks for the response Fidel, but I dont understand where to find that post function I did check the list of post function in my instance I dont see "Boolean condition with math, date-time or text-string terms" post function in the list of post functions.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

"Boolean condition with math, date-time or text-string terms" is a condition. Look for it condition's tab. It will be used for hiding transition "Edit special fields" to those statuses where we don't want to allow special fields to be edited.

[Bharath Kumar]

Thank you I did find that I was looking for that in post functions.

[Bharath Kumar]

I have one question can we have the condition during the Status "INITIAL SIZING DONE" (in the transition that leads to that status) so that we avoid the global transition.

[Fidel Castro Armario]

You can use 2 identical reflexive transitions in statuses "Open" and "In Initial Sizing". In this case you don't have to use the boolean condition.