Issues created gets unassigned intermittently, despite having "Default Assignee" set for the project

Platform Notice: Cloud - This article applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.

Summary

When creating issues under a project, it goes Unassigned sometimes, even with the Default assignee selected for the project. Similar to the screenshot where the default assignee already exists

Environment

Jira Cloud

Cause

During the issue creation process, one or more component was selected because of which the issue was created without an Assignee.

This is because each and every component has a Default Assignee set for it which ideally overrides the Default Assignee set for the project

This is explained in the document Organize work with the component as below:

A component default assignee will override the project's overall default assignee. If someone creates an issue with more than one component, and the default assignees for those components are different people, then Jira assigns the issue to the default assignee of the component that is first alphabetically.
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Unassigned - if your site allows unassigned issues and someone creates an issue with this component, the issue will remain unassigned

Solution

To get the issue assigned to a user, the component should have a valid Default Assignee or be selected as Project Default to pick the Default Assignee set for the project as the assignee.

Follow the below steps:

  1. Navigate to the project.
  2. Select Components from the navigation pane.
  3. Select Action (...) that is available with the component.
  4. Select an option other than Unassigned for the field Default Assignee according to your requirement.

         

Last modified on Nov 24, 2021

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