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What is the proper procedure to rename the "Open" status?

Chad Barnes1

I am trying to create a workflow wherein the default "Open" status is renamed to "Draft". What I have done so far:

Open workflow -> steps
Edit "Open" status
Change status name to "Draft" (linked status remains the same: Open)

When I view the workflow diagram from the designer the status appears as "Draft". If I view the workflow diagram from an issue in the project, the status appears as "Draft". However, the issues status (in the text-only "Details" section) appears as "Open".

Is it possible to get an issue's "Open" status to appear as "Draft" for a single workflow (not change it globally)?

Accepted answers

Thomas Schlegel

Hi Chad,

Create new status "Draft"
open the original "open" status in workflow-Editor
Klick the incoming step "Create Issue"
Edit this step
Set the destination to your "Draft" step

That's it

Cheers

Thomas

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Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Create a new new status 'Draft' and modify the linked status in that workflow alone to the new status.

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Is the workflow 'Active'? Check this out:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Workflow#ConfiguringWorkflow-Editinganactiveworkflow

You will have to copy the workflow, modify it and then activate it.

Chad Barnes1

Sorry. I don't quite follow. I can create a new status. But, the tool does not allow me to link the "Create" step to a new "Draft" status. And renaming the "Open" status to "Draft" only displays "Draft" in some interfaces, inconsistently. Sometimes the workflow diagram will show the stauts as "Draft", other times it will show it as "Open".

I'm sure I am missing something fundamental in changing this initial "Open" status to a different name but I cannot find related information in the documentation.

Thomas Schlegel

Hi Chad,

Create new status "Draft"
open the original "open" status in workflow-Editor
Klick the incoming step "Create Issue"
Edit this step
Set the destination to your "Draft" step

That's it

Cheers

Thomas

NielsJ

The inconsistent display of "Open" and "Draft" comes from the two (hardly distinguishable) different underlying concepts. The Remaining "Open" refers to a global status, and the "Draft" to the name of the workflow step. Each workflow step refers to a status.

Things you have to do for a migration:

create another global status named "Draft"
copy workflow
remove old "Open" workflow step
recreate workflow step that points to new status "Draft"
recreate all transitions, validations, post functions etc.
migrate all relevant projects from the old to the new workflow (there you get asked for the name of the mapping of the old "Open workflow step"

Chad Barnes1

Workflow is in draft mode. Still cannot change the initial transition to point to a new status.

Chad Barnes1

Thanks everyone. I keep running into error messages that I cannot remove the Open step nor can I change the transition from the initial "Create" step to point to my "Draft" step. This seems to be hard-coded that creating a new issue always puts the issue in a status named "Open".

The option to modify the initial transition is not available (it is grayed-out in the designer).

NielsJ

You cannot change the workflow's steps when it is in draft mode. You have to copy the workflow.

Chad Barnes1

Thomas, thank you. After realizing you didn't intend for this to be done in the Designer interface it worked.

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