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Group or groups from issue field.

Note

Issue field has to be accessible on create screen

This can be Issue field groups can be either a standard field or a custom field. In the case of If it's a custom field, you can use a group or multi-group select field.

Note

Issue field has to be accessible on create screen

Additionally, you can use the “Issue field - Group” option to create a step for user/s mentioned inside the description of an issue. This option is available as “Description”. Read more here.

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Action types

Approval / Consent action

One or more members of the selected Jira group can vote to approve or reject. When the step is activated, then all group members will receive a notification with a ‘call 'call for action’action'. On Upon page view, the user will see encounter accept and reject buttonbuttons. The decision cannot be changed. The only way to undo the decision is to ‘reset’ altered; it can only be undone by removing the ongoing approval path and start initiating a new one. Every Jira page participant Only a user with appropriate permission can start or reset the approval process.

Notification action

All group members will be notified about receive updates on the current progress. They might may be interested in knowing being informed about the progress or result, but those people have no involvement results but are not involved in decision-making. Possible use cases:

  1. Used at the beginning of the approval process to notify team members about the new project proposal.

  2. Used as the last step in the approval process to notify the Jira administrators about needed changes in the Jira structure.

Resolve user/users on

There are two Two options that allow you to reveal the group,:

  • Approval start

  • Step start

If the “approval start” option is selected, the group will be revealed as soon as the the approval starts (in the event of if the group is missing from the issue field, this step will be skipped or the definition will not be created).

Step The step start option, however, will only reveal the group once the path has reached to the step.

Once group or groups are determined this step behaves the same as Group Step.

Creator exclusion

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Exclude creator

As the creator of the definition, you can exclude yourself from the approvers, this way other members of the team will have to participate for the path to complete.

Skip the group from the approval path if it doesn't contain any users

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This feature allows the inclusion of a specific step in the approval process if it aligns with a condition defined in a https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-expressions/ Jira expression. Once selected, the step will only be added to the approval workflow solely when the condition is fulfilled. Should the condition not be met or encounter an error, the step will not be part of the approval process. Find more regarding conditions in our documentation.