How to know the ordinal number of the current step in a Workflow

Question

For statistical purposes,  I'd like to know if it possible to know the ordinal number (1 : first,  2 : second,  3 :third, so on)  of the current step in a WorkFlow.  Are they stored in a field perhaps?  At the moment, there are not any  script runner  plugin.  Thanks.

danielLuis · Answer

Thanks a lot for your answers!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

That's a better way of explaining what I was getting at in my second point.

In Joe's example, the ordinals for a well behaved issue would be 1, 2, 3, 4.  But imagine a failed test - you'd get it go through six ordinals, but not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.   It would be 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4.  So "ordinals" fail really because 2 and 3 are no longer unique.

Joe Pitt · Answer

It sounds to me like you want to know if the workflow status has a number that represents it's position in the workflow, Like this Open (1) -> In Progress (2) -> test (3) - Closed (4) . If so, I don 't believe JIRA stores that. Remember, statuses can be used in many workflows so it can't be part of the status definition. If you need that you should create a custom field and populate it with the step number as you define it in a post function of the transition going into the status in question. So when moving from open to in progress you set it to 2.  Put the field only on the view screen so it can't be edited.