Making defeault status "Todo"

yosi hatem

Hey,

We have in workflow bunch of statuses that comes before To Do.

After adding the additional statues, default status is the first status from the workflow

Is it possible to change it to To Do?

 

Current Workflow

In Design

In Product

Ready for Dev

Todo -> We want this status to be default

 

Thanks in advance

Walter Buggenhout

Hi @yosi hatem,

Are you sure these statuses come before To Do in your workflow?

The status issues go into by default when you create an issue, is the status the Create transition maps to. This is marked by the line that goes from the big grey circle into that status:

 

So, by default, when you hit the create button at the top of your screen and create an issue into this workflow, it should always land in to do.

Unfortunately, to complicate things, Atlassian has made it possible to create issues from a board in any column, thus allowing you to create issues directly in any status an bypassing the default setup.

You can eliminate that behaviour by removing the global transitions into each status (these are the ALL boxes with an arrow to each status) and replacing them with direct transitions between statuses. That way, your workflow becomes more of a process than just a bunch of statuses that are randomly put together.

Hope this helps!