Summary

The purpose of this article is to provide details on the necessary permissions for activating the 'Assign to me' feature in the issue view.
Note: this button is not available in the 'issue create' screen.

The 'Assign to me' button enables the user to modify the assignee of the issue without having to manually search for a user in the designated field.

In the backlog, you can also assign an issue to yourself using the keyboard shortcut by ticking a box next to an issue to select it and pressing the letter 'I' on your keyboard. Without the appropriate permissions, this keyboard shortcut will not work.

Solution

The 'Assign to me' requires the following permission/s:

For Company-managed projects:

• Assignable User
  Users with this permission may be assigned to issues.
  
  

• Assign Issues
  Ability to assign issues to other people.

For Team-managed projects:

• Assign any issue
  This permission allows people to change the value of the Assignee field on any of your project’s issues.

Additional Information:

These are the feature requests related to the 'Assign to me' button:

JRACLOUD-24687 - Getting issue details... STATUS

JSWCLOUD-8784 - Getting issue details... STATUS