Making the Assignee field required

By default, the Assignee field has an unassigned option, which is equivalent to making the field optional. If you look at the field configuration, you will realize that you cannot make the Assignee field required, as there is no such option available.

In this recipe, we will look at how to disable the unassigned option, effectively making Assignee a required field.

Getting ready

Note the following conditions are required for your projects in order to disable the unassigned option for each individual project:

• Issues that are currently using that option for the Assignee field—you will need to change all issues with an Unassigned value for Assignee to something else.
• Projects that have...