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Transition ALL to "Blocked" and "Blocked" to ANY

Jason Cagle

Part 1 (Solution Known): I want to create a "Blocked" status. You should be able to transition to this status FROM any other status.

- Part 1 is solved by setting the "Allow all to transition to this status"

Part 2 (Solution Not Known): From the "Blocked" status, you should be able to transition TO any other status.

- I cannot find a solution to Part 2 without creating every transition manually...which I'm hoping not to have to do. Ideally, I'd like to find another solution like Part 1 that maybe says "Allow this status to transition to any other status".

Any ideas?

Accepted answers

Brant Schroeder

Jason,

Sorry but the transition from "Blocked" back to the different statuses will have to be created one by one. The reason you can transition from many status to one using the allow all to transition to this status is the transition can be reused because the destination status is the same for all statuses. When going from "Blocked" to the different statuses the transition has to be different since the destination status is different. A transition in a workflow can only be the same if is leads to the same status.

Example:

Open -> (Transition: Block) -> Blocked
In Progress -> (Transition: Block) -> Blocked
Researching -> (Transition: Block) -> Blocked

Blocked-> (Transition: Unblock) -> Open
Blocked-> (Transition: Working) -> In Progress
Blocked-> (Transition: Researching) -> Researching

Hope that makes sense. If you have transitions that are already in place you can reuse those to cut down on management in the future.

Example:

Blocked-> (Transition: Unblock) -> Open
Open -> (Transition: Working) -> In Progress
Blocked-> (Transition: Working) -> In Progress

All comments

Brant Schroeder

Jason,

Example:

Open -> (Transition: Block) -> Blocked
In Progress -> (Transition: Block) -> Blocked
Researching -> (Transition: Block) -> Blocked

Blocked-> (Transition: Unblock) -> Open
Blocked-> (Transition: Working) -> In Progress
Blocked-> (Transition: Researching) -> Researching

Hope that makes sense. If you have transitions that are already in place you can reuse those to cut down on management in the future.

Example:

Blocked-> (Transition: Unblock) -> Open
Open -> (Transition: Working) -> In Progress
Blocked-> (Transition: Working) -> In Progress

Jason Cagle

Thanks. Yes, that makes sense. Can you explain that last comment/example? I'm not 100% sure I'm following you there.

Brant Schroeder

The other statuses in the workflow have transitions that point to them that already exist. You can use an existing transition when you create you transitions from Blocked back to the other statuses. This will make it easier to maintain the transitions and workflow in the future. In the example above there is a transition Working that already exists from open to in progress. You can reuse this transition from blocked to in progress since the destination is the same. Then if you make changes to the screen, validator, etc. in the future it is easier to maintain.

Jason Cagle

Ok, so, instead of having 2 transitions coming into "In Progress" (one from Blocked and one from Open), I could just have the one from Open and add the transition from Blocked to Open, correct?