Reusing transitions

[Merve Nur Bas]

Hi guys, 

okay this might be a very trivial question but here you go. When I add a post function to a reused transition, does this affect the reused one in the other workflow (of which I have no clue where it is used)?
Or what is the purpose of reusable transitions?

My best

Merve

[Alexander Ling · Accepted solution]

Hello @Merve Nur Bas 

A reused transition in a workflow means that a transition goes from any status in the workflow to the same end status. So if we have status A B C and want to be able to go to D. We can use reuse transition T from A B C that all ends at status D. This does not affect other workflows. If you add a post function to transition T in the example above it is going to run from all statuses associated with it. 

In short: you cannot reuse a transition between workflows.

Best regards,

Alexander

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

Hi  @Merve Nur Bas ,

a transition can only be reused within the same workflow.

[Natasha Richardson]

I have a similar/related question. Can you reuse a transition in a workflow and add a post function but only have it affect the transition from one of the statuses? For example, statuses A and B share the transition to C but only A to C should have a condition set on the transition to C. Since A and B share that transition, that means B will also pick up that condition, right? 

[Natasha Richardson]

well I confirmed this just now but wanted to put this out here anyway to confirm if there is a different way to get this working outside of just creating a separate transition.

[Merve Nur Bas]

Hi @Thomas Schlegel and @Alexander Ling 

thanks a lot for the answers!