To add a new button for workflow statuses in the issue screen

Question

Need Help !!

Our requirement is to remove the buttons “In Progress”,” Administrator Update” and “Workflow” in the issue screen,

and to add a new button called “Status Change”. This Button will be a Drop-Down Menu (similar to the existing “Workflow” button currently). It will have the following Items in the list:

* OPEN
* REOPENED
* PDEF
* ON HOLD
* SWD
* IN PROGRESS
* BLOCKED
* QA
* RESOLVE ISSUE

Fabrizio Galletti · Answer

There are some ways to enable it, (it's better to call these as shortcuts) but it's better to understand the meaning behind it. Remember that jira call this workflow "Simplified Workflow"

During workflow definition you can create Status and Transitions. Transitions are in action that connect statuses. JIra action button reflect these transitions

Edit your workflow and you can change your statuses with the flag "Allow all statuses to transition to this one" . It's like create connection between all defined status to this one. You have to do it for every status in your workflow.

As i said there are some shorcut:

* Standard workflow already configured like this
* Using Simplified Workflow directly from kanban /scrum configuration

pooja chourasia · Answer

Hello Fabrizio,

Thank you for your quick response.

Please share steps to achieve 'open steps' workflow and how it works.

Thanks in Advance!!

Fabrizio Galletti · Answer

Actually it's not so easy but let's split your request in 3 different steps.

1. Number of item shown on the toolbar

There is a jira property that manage the number of transitions button shown on the toolbar. Default is 2

ops.bar.group.size.opsbar-operations=3

You have to add it on your jira-config.properties file on your jira-data directory (for server installation). This will limit the number of button shown in the toolbar, every button exiding this limit will be placed in  the dropdown

Don't know if you can add 1 or 0 in this parameter.

2. Action

Buttons and transition depends on your workflow.

You can modify your workflow and convert it to an "open steps" workflow .. tell me if you need more information

3. Change the dropdown name

You can try to install In-Product Translation and modify the "Workflow" button.

Hope it helps