[#JRA-13981] Allow to edit an active workflow scheme

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Allow to edit an active workflow scheme

Created: 18/Nov/07 06:42 PM Updated: 07/Dec/07 08:16 AM

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Workflow

Affects Version/s:

3.11 Enterprise

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This issue relates to:

~~JRA-7661~~ Ability to Edit Active Workflow - Editing Workflows is too inflexible

Participants:	Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian], David Bullock, Drew Sheedy and Tom Miller
Since last comment:	23 weeks, 1 day ago
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So the current process is:
1) Create a workflow with all steps etc
2) Create workflow scheme, assigning issue types to workflows
3) Configure project to use the new workflow
4) Realise that you've forgotton something
5) swear
6) Copy Workflow - making required changes
7) Copy workflow scheme
8) Delete all assigned workflows in copied scheme
9) Assign issue types to new workflows
10) Configure project to use new workflow

.. And then there's the clean up stage where you delete the previous workflow scheme and workflow.

I've rarely seen changes to the workflow scheme once it's been configured, so it's just extra work to reconfigure the scheme for the new adjusted workflow.

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] - 18/Nov/07 09:47 PM

Hi Drew,

Is the way to solve this to allow to do a deep copy of a Workflow Scheme? That is, a copy of the scheme that copies all the workflows as well?

Otherwise, I am not sure how JIRA should figure out what scheme should be copied when workflows are copied. Especially if a scheme references more than one workflow.

Cheers,
Anton

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David Bullock - 18/Nov/07 10:22 PM

Deep copy of a scheme would be a usable workaround.

However, the real issues seem to me that:

JIRA doesn't allow any edits can be performed against an 'active' workflow. It would seem to me that some kinds of changes (rename, change post-operations of transitions, etc) could be done on active workflows;

JIRA doesn't allow any edits to be performed on an 'active' workflow-scheme. It would seem to me some kinds of changes (bulk-assign issue-types to use new workflows) could be done on active workflow-schemes.

cheers,
David.

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] - 20/Nov/07 12:41 AM

Editing active workflows is covered by ~~JRA-7661~~. We are hoping to address ~~JRA-7661~~ issue in the future.

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] - 20/Nov/07 12:43 AM

You are right, it should be possible to allow an active workflow scheme to be manipulated in some ways.

I have updated the summary of the issue to reflect this use case, as the first one is covered by ~~JRA-7661~~.

Please let me know if I have misunderstood your requirement.

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Tom Miller - 07/Dec/07 08:16 AM

Have you guys thought about locking the project as a short term fix? If the project is locked and no changes can be made to the project, then I should be able to change just about anything with the system asking me how to map it going forward if it breaks something.