How to change the visible workflow buttons?

Question

Hello all. Actually this question has been asked before, but the thread I found was from 2013 and doesnt have information relevant to the version of JIRA I am now running.

I made some changes in my workflow lately, when I made some statuses available to transition to wherever one is in the workflow. These are actually 2 very rarely used statuses (Wont Fix and Backlog). Now they are the main statuses that appear in the ribbon at the top of the bug, meaning the layout is no longer very intuitive, and team members have to go digging just to find the standard next step in the workflow to move the issue on.

Is there a way where I can rearrange this or select which issues are usually visible?

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Ok. You can also add the opsbar-sequence property to all transitions to order these transitions on the screen. You can find more info here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Changing-Order-of-the-Workflow-Transition-Buttons/qaq-p/239379

Janine Daniels · Answer

No I dont want to hide these statuses, everyone should be able to access them XD

Perhaps we are looking at different UI? Currently, I can only see only two options at the top of an issue for moving something on to the next status. Ideally, it should show the next regular step in the workflow for completion (ie - in progress -- fixed). However, the user currently has to use a dropdown menu, which is labelled "Workflow", which is not very intuitive, to find the next standard steps in the workflow, instead of the ones for edge cases, like when they want to reject an issue or send it to the backlog.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

If you want to show these statuses only for certain users, then you can add the User is In Project Role our User is in Group conditions.