Can I change the workflow of a specific issue that already exists?

Question

I changed the workflow used for a certain issue type, and it seems like that just makes it so future issues of that type will use the new workflow.

That's part of what I wanted to do, but I want to also switch existing issues of that type over to the new workflow. Is this possible?

Mikael Sandberg · Accepted Answer

Changing the workflow will affect all issues that is associated with that workflow, it will not just apply to future issues.

Alexis Evans · Accepted Answer

In addition to the other answer above, I found another reason why it wasn't originally working for me. I made the change within the project itself, but I also had to go over to the workflow scheme and edit it there. For any statuses that didn't match up between the old and new workflows, it had me choose what status to set issues with certain statuses to. Jira handled the transition really well and all of the issues went to the correct statuses. It's just a matter of finding where to change it first.