How do I remove a workflow step?

[Tom McKenzie2]

How do I delete a step from a workflow? It appears this may be a known bug https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Cannot+Add+Transitions+or+Delete+Steps+in+Draft+Workflows

The step doesn't have any transitions and I can't figure out how to add transtions so issues that are moved to this step are stuck.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

It should normally allow you to add transitions in draft state. Nevertheless, you can create a copy of the workflow, make all changes, add it in a copy of the workflow scheme and migrate the project to that scheme.

Not as easy as publishing a draft, but that will work for sure.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I have no idea :) Btw, I have done it directly in the database by replacing workflow XML. That needs a scheduled outage but it is quicker!

It is not an option in onDemand though.

[JT]

Are there plans to change this behavior? We have workflows with over 65,000 issues associated with them. Making a copy if the workflow and migrating the projects means the project users are "locked out" while the migration takes place.

[Natalie Hobson]

How many issues are in each of your projects? I find that those with under 500 tickets or so are fairly quick for reassociating workflow schemes (users would not be "locked out"). If you have a large amount of tickets in your projecs, you might want to consider moving the inactive/outdated ones to an archived project so that your working project is quicker and more efficient.