I am trying to change an existing workflow name, how is this done?
Hi @Jason Adams
welcome to the community and thanks for your question.
When a workflow is actively used in a project you are not able to rename it, only the description can be modified.
Renaming can only be done on inactive workflows. Best idea would be to make a copy of the workflow, rename it to your liking and switch the workflow in the workflow scheme.
You might also take a look at this post which describes the whole process: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-do-you-change-the-name-of-a-workflow/qaq-p/1346902#M607926
Feature request JRASERVER-19813
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Feature request is 15 years old. LOL. Not really a surprise unfortunately.
What your steps aren't considering tho, is that on step 2, is that the real workflow name you want to use IS STILL IN USE by the active workflow that you copied (and that cannot be modified because it's active).
So actually if you want to do things clean, you will need ANOTHER copy of the worfklow, or another worfklow with equivalent statuses, so that you use it as a temporary worfklow, while you delete the original worfklow and rename its newest version.
YES, it's a mess.
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Hi @Jerome F_
Yes you are right I missed that step although I had to perform it a lot of times in the past already.
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