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New workflows not showing up

Thomas Devin

I'm trying to create my own workflow. I go to the Admin -> Issues -> Workflows page and click copy on an existing workflow. Give it a name and click copy.

When I go back to the workflows page it's not there. Can't see it under active or inactive list. When I try to create another one with the same name it says I can't because there's already one with that name.

Where do these workflows disappear to? I've created a few different ones and they're no where to be found. Help!

I'm using self hosted 30 day trial. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

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Moses Thomas_08kyb0

@Thomas DevinGo down at the end of the window you will see inactive workflow you will find it. if you associate it in a project you will see it in active workflows.

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Thomas Devin

Okay so I just did an inspect on the inactive list in Chrome and the div with class "mod-content" had a display none. This must be a bug?

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

@Thomas DevinGo down at the end of the window you will see inactive workflow you will find it. if you associate it in a project you will see it in active workflows.

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Thomas Devin

Okay I figured this out. You have to actually click on the "Inactive" title and it will display the inactive items. Otherwise it is hidden. This was extremely confusing because it wasn't clear you could click it.

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

@Thomas DevinIt is working as designed is a kind of separation from the active work-flows you just need to check there, there is a reason for in-active written at the button of work flows window.

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Thomas Devin

Okay cool! Makes more sense now that I can see them. Maybe there should be a little arrow or button that shows you that you can expand and contract those sections? Just a thought. Thanks for the help

Wojtek Tomalik_w3aq64

You cannot access inactive workflows through Project Settings > Workflows... you gotta go to general "Issues" > "Workflows" (URL path /jira/settings/issues/workflows) and only then you get the "Workflows" and "Workflow Schemes" -- absolutely garbage UX on this.

So, if you can't find how to edit your workflow from your project settings, go to the global settings (top right gear icon), select "Issues" and there you will get "Workflow Schemes" option in left menu where you can see your inactive workflows to edit them... cuz you can't edit active workflows in your project... even if you have no issues in the project yet.

Abhay Patil

It is a little weirder than that. When I copy a workflow, it just refreshes the screen - it doesn't bring up any interaction to name the copy. After attempting a couple times with same experience, I checked "inactive" wofkflows to realize that it was creating workflows silently and naming them "Copy of ..." and then "Copy 2 of ..." and so on! But there was no indication that it was doing it.

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