How to automate workflow creation via scriptrunner?

Question

Hello, everyone,

I'm trying to create a new empty workflow with a scriptrunner groovy script to automate the project creation process. Trying to emulate the workflow from admin ui. However, I can't find the right methods in the Jira API documentation under the WorkflowManager.

I can make a copy of the standard workflow using WorkflowManager.copyWorkflow() but it will not be empty and i'm not able to delete the existing steps. In the UI I can click the button "Add workflow" and get an empty workflow to which I can add steps one by one. How do I implement this via the API?

Can someone give me a rough overview over the related concepts and how I solve this with the API? The following points are the most important ones:

1.) create an empty workflow
2) add existing steps, status and actions
3) create workflow scheme
4) assign workflow to scheme
5) assign scheme to project

best regards
René

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Creating a workflow from scratch is a monolithically complicated thing to do.

Steps 3 and 4 are easy to do in SR, but I strongly recommend that you don't go down the route of using SR to create workflows - you're looking at thousands of lines of code.  And for 5, don't try to replicate all the migration code you'd need to do.

Pana Florin Ionut · Answer

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