Flagging from the app

If a Jira admin turned it on, the Blocker dialog also offers:

• Flag with reason: sets the Flagged field as you, and the blocker gets its reason, note, owner and date right away.
• Resolve and remove the flag: removes the flag and saves what is in the Resolution field.

Jira's history confirms the change, usually within a minute; until then the dialog shows it as in progress and checks again by itself. If someone else changed the flag at the same time, the app does not guess: add the reason by hand.

The issue view shows the new flag at once. The board does not: a card flagged or unflagged from the app turns yellow (or back) when the board is refreshed. This is a Jira limitation (apps cannot refresh the board); the flag itself is set right away.