Two way workflow Transition For "ON HOLD" Status

[Yash Raj]

Hello everyone,

am stuck with workflow transition 

i have two steps status in the workflow which i have added Transition to "ON hold" status

But the problem is 

when i move the transition from "Step 1" to "On hold" , then after it shows the Transition of "step 1" and also the "step 2" 

which i don't want to be Happen

Kindly provide any solution 

when i move from step 1 to on hold and again from on hold to step 1, the other step 2 should not be visible.

 

[Robert Wen · Accepted solution]

The only way I see out of this is having 2 "On-hold" statuses, one for each Step.

[Yash Raj]

Hi @Robert Wen 

Thanks for your quick Response

we can make 2 "On-hold" statuses but what if i want to show that status in the Board

then i have to make to make to columns for both Status

and also need to make 2 different Statuses in the workflow with same name 

even also we would face issues in importing data of "Status"

is there any better solution for this problem ?

[Robert Wen]

Actually, you could map both "On-Hold" statuses onto a single column.

[Yash Raj]

But 2 "On-Hold" statuses with same spelling it won't accept ?

[Robert Wen]

So when I say 2 "on-hold" statuses, I don't mean they have the same name.  It would probably look something like this.

On a board, you can have the two on-hold statuses (Step 1 Hold, Step 2 Hold) mapped to a single board column.

I think this is the simplest solution to what you want.

[Yash Raj]

Thank you soo much @Robert Wen 

[Nic Brough _Adaptavist_]

On Server, there are a couple of apps that provide a "previous status was" condition.  Cloud doesn't support that yet, but you can get close with off-the-shelf functions.

You need a custom field, and  four transitions:

Add a field called something obvious like previous-status.

• Step 1 -> on hold
  • With a post-function that sets previous-status to Step-1
• Step 2 -> on hold
  • With a post-function that sets previous-status to Step-2
• On hold -> step 1
  • With a Condition that says "only allow this if previous-status is Step-1
  • With a post-function that clears previous-status
• On hold -> step 2
  • With a Condition that says "only allow this if previous-status is Step-2
  • With a post-function that clears previous-status

[karel_mellen]

You could use a (hidden) custom field to mark the origin status and check this field value in the transition condition.

[Yash Raj]

Hello @karel_mellen 

Could you please explain how to do it

Because it not a custom field

[karel_mellen]

You need to *create* and extra custom field in which you store the previous status. You can use this field's value to build conditions on.