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How to reopen a closed issue in Jira

Kieron Thomas

Hi,

I cannot find how to re-open a closed issue, which I know should be possible.

My workflow closed status has the following:

jira.issue.editable true

In the list of issue statuses and under closed is:

The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are closed can be reopened.

Yet no-where can I find the option allowing me to re-open a closed issue.

I would greatly appreciate any help on this.

Kind regards,

Kieron

Accepted answers

Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_

Hi Kieron,

you can't add transition to a step that doesn't contain any transition (for the active workflow). In order to do that foillow these simple steps :

- Copy your current active workflow

- Edit the just copied wf just adding a new outgoing transition into your closed status

- Replace the old workflow with the updated one

This should resolve your issue.

Regards,

Fabio

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Udo Brand

Do you have a transition from Closed to Open in you workflow? If yes, please check your conditions in that transition.

Christoffer Kar2

Hi Thomas,

"jira.issue.editable=true" has nothing to do with transitions between statuses. It's only for editing the fields in a specifc status.

Are you sure you have a tranisition from Closed to Open?

Best regards

Christoffer

Kieron Thomas

Hi Udo & Christoffer,

No there is no transition from closed to open and I cannot add any as it says there are 'no outgoing transitions in the active workflow' so I can't add any in the draft workflow.

Frankly that means nothing to me, so I don't know how to resolve it.

Many thanks,
Kieron

Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_

Hi Kieron,

you can't add transition to a step that doesn't contain any transition (for the active workflow). In order to do that foillow these simple steps :

- Copy your current active workflow

- Edit the just copied wf just adding a new outgoing transition into your closed status

- Replace the old workflow with the updated one

This should resolve your issue.

Regards,

Fabio

Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_

Hi Kieron,

please, could you check if some condition has been defined in your "Re-open" transition? I think that there's some condition y=that doesn't allow to perform this operation.

Hope this helps.

Fabio

Udo Brand

You would need to add an outgoing transition from Closed to Open in your workflow. If there is no transition between those Steps(Statuses) you won't be able to "Reopen" your issue.

Kieron Thomas

Hi Fabio and Svante,

Thanks I'll try that out - sounds like a bit of a long winded solution though, is that some kind of bug within Jira as I can play around with any other kind of transitions in an active workflow?

Thanks for your help, I'll post back with the result.

Cheers,
Kieron

Udo Brand

No Bug, just a limitation. See :

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Cannot+Add+Transitions+or+Delete+Steps+in+Draft+Workflows

Svante Gustafsson Björkegren

Hi Kieron,

To add an outgoing transition in this case you need to do it on an inactive workflow.

Please see this post for details

More info in the JIRA documentation here

Cheers,

// Svante

Svante Gustafsson Björkegren

Yep, just the way it is actually. Hopefully this will be managed better in future versions.

Cheers,

// Svante

Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_

Jus a limitation. The suggested approach should work fine.

Let me know.

Regards,

Fabio

Kieron Thomas

Thanks to Fabio and Svante for the solution, it worked perfectly.

Cheers,
Kieron

scott liebman

How do I do this? Is there a step by step process?

Gautham_Ganesh

Hi Fabio,

Tell step by step process. U should know whether others understand ur content or not.

Razvan Dutu_vvqbf5

Use Status 'Closed' instead of 'Done'.

Closed will allow you to re-open items and create transition from Closed --> Open

Peter Szilagyi_6dtnuw

In our case the closed issue implicitly applied editable= false, which blocked any further action and ultimately we couldn't complete nor delete sprints.

This article helped resolving the key issue: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-do-i-edit-closed-issues-779160787.html

(Just don't forget to publish workflow as well - I have checked and in edit mode the property was gone, but in view mode it was still there)

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