Concurrent Workflow Tasks

[Michael Bascom]

I have just started using JIRA and I am trying to find out if I can create a workflow that allows for concurrent activity.

For example:

A project is opened. The initial paperwork is approved. And, from that approval, three different people can all begin working immediately on their portion of the process (one will write a letter, one will begin writing a press release, and another person will begin writing a magazine article). There is no real need for these three steps to have precedence over one another. After ALL three of these steps are completed, then the project can move to presentation to the client. And subsequent steps thereafter.

Is there a way to design this in a workflow? Specifically to where a task can be assigned to multiple people at the same time?

Thanks!

[Dieter]

The workflow framework OSWorkFlow on which JIRA is built supports that using split and join actions and if you like experiments you could try that: http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=180532 Maybe some day Atlassian will spport that better ... An alternative could be to create one subtask for each workflow participant. On closing the subtask you would need some postfunction logic to close the parent task if all sibling subtasks have been closed

[Dieter]

You may create the subtasks for each participnt with something like that http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=180532 Here you find an example how to transition the parent when subtasks have been resolved https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/GRV/Built-In+Scripts