How can I make only certain statuses in a workflow available to certain project roles

Question

We have the Default Software Workflow which is perfect for half of the team (Developers). They HAVE to move through each of these statuses/steps.

Example:  they must go from "To do" to "In Progress" and from "In Progress" to "Read for Review"

The other half of the team (Systems Engineers) do not need to move through these steps

Example: They can go from "To do" to "In Review"

If I use the Project Role Condition Transition, it means that those roles are allowed to transition from the one status to the next but it does not force them to.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Ok, so I am now a little stuck on what the question is.  You've made use of conditions to say "only person type X can do action Y", it just sounds like you need some more of them - for example one on the "in progress to in testing" that only allows testers to do it, and not the developers

Joe Pitt · Answer

If you setup the conditions on the workflow there will usually only be one possible workflow to execute. I've seen a couple that allowed a branch the user picked, but that is rare

unknown · Answer

Hi Nic

Thank you for your response. As mentioned to @Joe Pitt , the word force was maybe not the right one, rather I want to remind them which step comes next.

These are actually workflows they have decided on individually. The dev team decided which states they needed and the Engineering team wanted different states. It is more to help them know which comes next as they are all new to Agile/SCRUM and JIRA.

Using the allow conditions doesn't really help, example:

I can allow a developer to transition from "In Progress" to "Ready for Review" and I can allow an engineer to transition from "In Progress" to "In Testing" but that means that a developer can still go from "In Progress" to "In Testing" and an engineer can still go from "In Progress" to "In Review"