Strange JIRA issue status added

Question

Suddenly I found there is a status called 'IN' added and associated to many workflows. For those workflows previously the status was 'OPEN', not become 'IN'.

Questions:

1. How can this happen?

2. How to change the 'IN' status to 'OPEN' status for those workflow simply? As I have 48 workflow, don't want to change it 1 by 1.

Sicai Zhang · Answer

Please refer to this screenshot, thanks.

Bharathi · Answer

Yes @Sicai Zhang, it wouldn't allow since you have a status with the same name already. In this case, you'll have to add the already existing Open status to your workflows and re-allocate all the transitions from the In status to Open. But this will again be like, editing each workflow one-by-one. I couldn't think of any other solution for this.

We'll wait to hear from others on this.

Sicai Zhang · Answer

Hi @Bharathi ,

Thanks for your reply. However, the 'Open' status is still there. When I tried to change 'IN' back to 'OPEN', it's not allowed.