Reporter is Required Error When Creating JIRA Issues From Confluence

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Symptoms

Attempting to create a JIRA Issue using the JIRA Issues macro while editing a page, results in the following error:

Cause

The Reporter field is set as Visible in the Create Issue Screen in JIRA for that particular project.

Resolution

  1. Log into JIRA and navigate to JIRA Administration >> Projects
  2. Click on the affected project, then click on Screens:

  3. Identify the screen that is bound to the Create Issue operation. In the example above, it is the Default Screen. Click on that.
  4. Remove the Reporter field from this screen:

Last modified on Feb 26, 2016

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