Change Status Name used in many workflows

Question

I need to change a status name used in 40+ active workflows. Is there a way to "bulk" name change?

A user (with admin rights) modified the name of "In Progress" to her own status and it changed our "In Progress" status across all workflows to her own status. I'm trying to avoid going into each workflow and fixing her mess.

Octavio Cornú · Answer

Hey I just wanted to thank you because I had the same issue and I couldn't find ANYTHING online to fix it, the only solution I came across was editing every workflow by creating inactive copies, making the changes, and then assigning them to become active, but your answer worked like a charm and I was able to fix 47 workflows!

Thanks again Pieter!

Pieter Kuppens · Answer

After some searching, I found the issue with the statuses.

I went to :

{mysite}.atlassian.net/secure/admin/ViewStatuses.jspa

and saw I indeed had a second 'In Progress' state. I had to remove the (inactive) workflows that used that one, and remove the state. Then a rename worked.

However, I also made changes to the transitions (Allow all states to transition to this one) a few times, and need to revert that as well.

Can't the default flow be added to the atlassian market place?

Pieter Kuppens · Answer

@somethingblue  "The initial change will need to be reverted first."

But how? (On Jira Cloud)

Just setting "Corrupted State Name" to "In Progress" returns an error that the name already exists.