Enable Solution Menu without Enabling Capabilities

[Lyle Rosdahl]

I know once you turn on Capabilities, there's no going back, but we'd like to use Process Steps for State/Status mapping (currently running into some issues with items being moved irregularly in Jira). My understanding is that you need to have the Solution menu enabled in order to create Process Steps for more finely grained State/Status mappings.

My questions:

• Can we enable the Solution menu without enabling Capabilities?
• If so, are there other functions that are enabled with this (e.g., the ability to create Solution teams)?
• Is this reversible (can it be disabled)?

I'd test this in our development environment, but we've already enabled Capabilities there.

Thanks!

[Jamie Giantonio · Accepted solution]

@Lyle Rosdahl the help page for process flows does say solution menu, but you can actually get there from the portfolio level. Select portfolio from the top nav bar, then more items and you should see process flows. This may have to be enabled by an admin under the Roles System Access Controls (Portfolio, Manage, Process Flows)

Additionally here is a great article on setting up process flows: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Align-articles/Mapping-States-Steps-and-Statuses-between-Jira-Align-and-Jira/ba-p/1354724

[Lyle Rosdahl]

Awesome. I was going by the documentation so wasn't aware there was another way to get to it. I have seen that documentation but thank you for providing the link here. Thanks very much!

[Jamie Giantonio]

No prob- i have requested that the help page be updated to reflect that you can get there from Portfolio as well to avoid any future confusion

[Steve Sauser]

@Lyle Rosdahl Thanks for your question!

Solution can be turned on without Capabilities, but without the work item (capability) there is no value in a Process Step, because it would only apply to the work item of Capability.  If you could explain your goal here in a little more detail we can likely offer some guidance.  

Solutions without Capabilities will provide you the ability to group Programs together into a Solution record.  

Turning on Solution without Capabilities can be reversed, it is only the enable capabilities that cannot be turned back off.  

[Lyle Rosdahl]

Thank you for the response, Steve. I wasn't aware that I could get to Process Steps from the Portfolio menu, but I very much appreciate the information you provided as well.