Do you need to disallow changes on a specific issue?

For example: Imagine that you have a Test Plan that you must guarantee that no one will change it.


The first option could be removing the permission to EDIT issues to users; however, this is a global setting, and hereafter no one will be allowed to edit any issue. So this is not the ideal solution.

Other possible and more viable way, is using the native capabilities from Workflows from Jira. 

So what can you do?

Step-by-step guide


  1. Go to Project Settings >> Workflows and click on the pencil to edit your workflow:



  2. Create a new status to your workflow to be final or use an existent one. In this example will be used Closed.

  3. Select the status and click on Properties.
  4. And add this property
  5. Then go to your issue and change the workflow status to CLOSED.

    Before:


    AFTER:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/workflow-properties-776636709.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/workflow-properties-938847526.html