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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-13981

Allow to edit an active workflow scheme

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      Atlassian Status as of 29 October 2012

      Hi All,

      Good news! We have addressed the original improvement request provided in the description of this issue, in JIRA 5.2. Users now have the ability to edit a workflow scheme on a project - a draft is created, and the migration is handled through the normal migration process. Functionality that has been provided:

      • Add existing workflows
      • Remove workflows from scheme
      • Reassign issue types between workflows in the scheme
      • Publish draft
      • Discard draft

      You can read all about the new improvements in the latest JIRA EAP release notes.

      This functionality works if you have a 1:1 mapping between a project and a workflow scheme. I understand that this does not fulfil the functionality discussed in JRA-5254, which is also mentioned in the comments on this issue. We understand this and are actively addressing JRA-5254 - unfortunately it is not a part of JIRA 5.2.

      Going forward, I will be resolving this issue when JIRA 5.2 is released in the coming weeks, and leaving JRA-5254 open until that is fully addressed and workflow schemes can be edited when they are associated with more than one project.

      If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact me directly.

      Thanks for your understanding,
      Josh Devenny
      JIRA Product Management
      jdevenny at atlassian dot com

      Original Description
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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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