Hi Guys,

you may use User group picker to restrict a user picker to a specific or dynamic group or role. It's free.

To set the assignee, reporter or any other system or custom field you may use JJUPIN and it's Simple Issue Language.
Setting a value to a custom or standard field requires one line of code:

assignee="admin";
customfield_10000=customfield_10001-1;

Here are some of examples:
http://confluence.kepler-rominfo.com/display/JJUP20/Simple+Issue+Language+Usage

Give it a try here: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keplerrominfo.jira.plugins.jjupin
or here http://jira-plugins.kepler-rominfo.com/x/product/id/3

Here is how you create a condition, validator or post-function: http://confluence.kepler-rominfo.com/display/JJUP20/Writing+Validators%2C+Postfunctions+and+Conditions

Hi Jørgen and others

Have a look on User By Workflow Step ... It may amswer to your need.

Vincent

Alex and Nitish, maybe I misunderstand this issue but your proposal for a solution breaks in my case which is using JIRA for customer communication. What I wan't from this is to limit the list of users that the customer can assign an issue to. You wouldn't want the customer to assign an issue to a developer. The logical thing for me would be to put the customer (and all other interested parties) in the users project role and then let project users only be able to assign issues to the project leader.

The best work around according to me,for this would be:
Edit the Permission schemes: Assignable users ->Project Role:Developers (which is default:jira-developer)

Then each Project Leader could add users to Developers role for his project.

Hence for any issue, the "assign to" list will only show those users which are "developers" for that project.

Can this be achieved via creating a group with the list of approved assignees and then create a Permission Schemes and use the group under "Assignable User" ?

It would be great if we could name a few jira-users as Project Role- Developers and then in the assign to list only those developers are shown.

We also need this functions. Currently all users apear in the dropdown. This creates problems when the wrong person (role) is selected and it would be great to be able to filter the displayed list to only the applicable group (say developers).

This would be useful. Can the plugin be added to the plugin exchange, with compatibility grid.

On the plug-in page they say: "broken and deprecated."

We are considering including this functionality in a future version of JIRA. As this issue has not been scheduled yet, unfortunately I cannot provide an accurate time line for its implementation.

The plugin is labeled a 'hack' as it relies on manually adding properties to step definitions in the workflow. When we include this functionality in JIRA we might change the way it works.

The source to the plugin can be found here:
http://repository.atlassian.com/atlassian-jira-workflowbasedpermissions-plugin/distributions/

So if you like you can customise it to your needs.

Thanks,
Anton