Workflows stop working after renaming with scriptrunner script.

[Chris Dunne _Raledo_]

Hi

We have a lot of workflows and wanted to rename them to a new naming convention. We used a scriptrunner script to rename the workflows. The rename was successful and no errors were reported.

But after the rename none of the existing issues could be transitioned - there were no actions available on the issue detail screen. However the status is correctly displayed, and the View Workflow link next to the status works and shows the correct workflow diagram and name. There are no conditions on the workflow transitions that would prevent the action buttons from showing.

When we view the project settings all the issue type to workflow mappings are correct, and workflow scheme seems to be correctly setup.

I've run the integrity checker, and re-indexed all issues.

I understand that you do not support ScriptRunner, but I don't think this is an issue with the add-on. I think it may be an issue with how we are using the APIs of the various classes used.

If we create a new issue, the workflows are working correctly.

The relevant section of code is as follows:

for(int i = 0; i < issueTypes.size(); i++)
{ 
    def issueTypeName = issueTypes[i].name;  
    log.warn("Processing Issue Type ${issueTypeName}");  
    workflow = workflowManager.getWorkflow(projectId, issueTypes[i].id); 
    workflowName = workflow.getName();
    def hyphenpos = 0; 
    def newName  
    for(int w=0; w< actionWords.size(); w++) 
    { 
       hyphenpos = issueTypeName.lastIndexOf(actionWords[w]); 
       if(hyphenpos>0) 
       { 
          StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); 
          builder.append(issueTypeName.substring(0,hyphenpos)); 
          builder.append(":"); 
          builder.append(issueTypeName.substring(hyphenpos + 2)); 
          newName = "(${projectKey}) ${builder.toString()}" 
          if(forPreview) { 
              log.warn("Dry run - no updates will be performed --- Renaming Workflow from [${workflowName}] to {${newName}}"); } 
              if(!forPreview) { 
                wfService.updateWorkflowNameAndDescription(ctx,workflow,newName,workflow.getDescription()) 
                log.warn("Renamed Workflow from [${workflowName}] to {${newName}}"); 
              } 
              break; 
          } 
       } 
 

I suspect that although the rename was successful, the link between the issues and the workflow is somehow corrupted and the issue is still somehow referencing the old workflow name.

In the logs I see errors like the following when viewing an issue

com.opensymphony.workflow.FactoryException: Unknown workflow name

[Jan Ulrich Robens]

We stumbled upon the same issue and it seems that

// Migrate all issues to new workflows
projectManager.projects.each { project ->
    issueManager.getIssueIdsForProject(project.id).each { issueId ->
        final issue = issueManager.getIssueObject(issueId)
        final workflow = workflowManager.getWorkflow(issue)

        workflowManager.migrateIssueToWorkflow(issue, workflow, issue.status)
    }
}

at the end seems to "update" the issues to be usable again.