Unable to edit a draft workflow

[Isabelle Poueriet]

I am a SITE ADMIN.

I go to an an active workflow and click the Edit link.

It takes me to a screen that says that I'm editing a draft, which is fine(this is the draft that JIRA created because the workflow is active). I edit the draft by adding a transition.

I click Save and I get this error in red:

You cannot perform this operation on a draft workflow.

If I try to edit the Active workflow I get a similar error about unable to edit an active workflow.

So what's the deal? How can I make changes to the workflow?

I also tried publishing the Draft first and then editing. Same problem.

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

There are somethings you can't do on an active workflow. When you run into this scenario you need to make a copy of the workflow, edit the copy and then associate the new version with the issue types desired. There are a number of discussions in the community on this topic where you can find more detail if needed. However if you run into an issue just let me know.

[Andrew Grossman]

JFC why is that not explained on the error message?!?!?!

[Jack Brickey]

Reasonable question.