Hello,
Is it possible to change a custom workflow status to a default Jira workflow status (example: opened to open ) without creating new workflows for the existing projects? Like a bulk change or similar. Thank you.
Yes, you can edit the workflow and change the status in use. You don't even need to do any migration if you just change the status.
Hi @Elif Alverson
Yes, we can do it, you can edit the exiting workflow and add the status Open and then move all the transitions that are going to Opened and add it to Open. Once done publish the workflow.
After that have to perform bulk change to all the issues to update the status from Opened to Open.
Thank you,Ashish
@Elif Alverson -
The warning message that you got when trying to change the WF status is because the status that you wanted to change is already in used.
The only option you can do is by copying the existing WF, and then conduct the WF updates. Once the WF changes are complete, then you will need to access the project's WF configuration schema and just replace the existing WF with the new one.
Afterward, publish the WF to activate the changes.
Hope this helps.
Best, Joseph Chung Yin
Jira/JSM Functional Lead, Global Technology Applications Team
Viasat Inc.
@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- ,
I am getting this message;
You can only remove statuses from inactive workflows. To start with this workflow and remove statuses, make a copy of it which will be inactive. You can assign it to the project when you're happy with it.
Learn more about configuring and editing workflows.
@Ashish Bijlwan , thank you for your response. I am getting this message below.
Deleting status from a flow is different to changing it. You can't delete a step from an active workflow because there might be issues currently at that step. You must migrate them all to a different workflow before deleting a step, otherwise you'd render your issues useless and unmoveable.
You will have to do what it says in the error message - create a new workflow, without the step you don't want any more, and migrate the issues over to it.
I am sorry for the confusion. I wanted to get your opinions to see if there is an easy way to change a status of an active workflow from opened to open. It seems like there is no other way but create a new workflow. Thank you.
We can't delete the status from the active workflow.
@Ashish Bijlwan -
As mentioned in this posting threads, if the status is currently associated with issues (i.e. you have issues currently at the OPENED status and you wanted to removed it), then you cannot removed it. You will need to copy the WF and conduct your changes against the copied WF. Afterward, you can assigned to copied WF back to your project in question.
NOTE - You also need to make sure that the existing WF is not shared by other projects, because if so, it will impact all the projects that use the shared WF.
Best, Joseph
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