How to change jira project's workflow via REST API

[kyco4ektopta]

Hi! I've a problem with changejira project's workflow via REST API.

I have a jira version 6.3.8

I tried to use this manual - https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/6.3.8/

Maybe there is some hidden not documented API?

How can i do this?

Thanks.

[Tarun Sapra]

Using REST APIs the best you can do it to change the status of an issue i.e. do a workflow transition for a issue, but you can't change jira project's workflow to another workflow this isn't possible using REST API.

Programmatically this can be done - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/how-to-programatically-change-a-project-s-workflow-in-Jira/qaq-p/474694 

[Samuel Skeen]

Link fails.  Do you have an example you can show me or even another link that isn't dead that I could look at?  I have had little success in finding non-prohibitively complex solutions to this problem.

[Samuel Skeen]

To look a little closer at that question/searching around, this looks like it is an answer for if you have access to the Java API.  In my case, this will not work because I don't.  I'll need to do something if possible via the REST API.

I guess I could try to make a plugin that can do that, but I'm hoping to not have to go that deep just for this situation.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi,

I've never heard of a REST API to change a project's workflow scheme.

Why do you want to do that? 

[kyco4ektopta]

Hi!

We often creating JIRA projects (for customers) and always change default WF to our custom WF scheme. So.. I just want to automate it.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Why don't you create a template-project and then create the new project with shared configuration? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Changing a workflow requires JIRA to do a whole swathe of integrity checks that can often lead to a load of questions needing to go back to the user.

A REST interface for that would be hideously complex and barely ever used, so Atlassian have not written one.

The answer for your usage really is what Thomas said - use a shared configuration.

[Samuel Skeen]

On this topic, I have no idea how to use the REST API to actually copy the settings from another project to a new project.  How do you do that?  I can find no documentation on how to accomplish this.  Sure, it mentions the `projectTemplateKey`, but I couldn't get it to work with that and it looks like it's more specifically an internal, non-changeable project template key.

If you please, could you give an example of how to do this via the API?

[Samuel Skeen]

Rephrased to ask more directly:  How do you create a project with a shared configuration via the REST API.

[Ricardo Silva]

Team, I know this topic is old... but if you plan to create projects programmaticaly using a shared configuration, take a look on this topic >> https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-create-project-with-shared-Configuration-via-REST-API/qaq-p/650062