What is the proper procedure to rename the "Open" status?

[Chad Barnes]

I am trying to create a workflow wherein the default "Open" status is renamed to "Draft". What I have done so far:

1. Open workflow -> steps
2. Edit "Open" status
3. Change status name to "Draft" (linked status remains the same: Open)

When I view the workflow diagram from the designer the status appears as "Draft". If I view the workflow diagram from an issue in the project, the status appears as "Draft". However, the issues status (in the text-only "Details" section) appears as "Open".

Is it possible to get an issue's "Open" status to appear as "Draft" for a single workflow (not change it globally)?

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

Hi Chad,

1. Create new status "Draft"
2. open the original "open" status in workflow-Editor
3. Klick the incoming step "Create Issue"
4. Edit this step
5. Set the destination to your "Draft" step

That's it

Cheers

Thomas

[Chad Barnes]

Thomas, thank you. After realizing you didn't intend for this to be done in the Designer interface it worked.

[NielsJ]

The inconsistent display of "Open" and "Draft" comes from the two (hardly distinguishable) different underlying concepts. The Remaining "Open" refers to a global status, and the "Draft" to the name of the workflow step. Each workflow step refers to a status.

Things you have to do for a migration:

1. create another global status named "Draft"
2. copy workflow
3. remove old "Open" workflow step
4. recreate workflow step that points to new status "Draft"
5. recreate all transitions, validations, post functions etc.
6. migrate all relevant projects from the old to the new workflow (there you get asked for the name of the mapping of the old "Open workflow step"

[Chad Barnes]

Thanks everyone. I keep running into error messages that I cannot remove the Open step nor can I change the transition from the initial "Create" step to point to my "Draft" step. This seems to be hard-coded that creating a new issue always puts the issue in a status named "Open".

The option to modify the initial transition is not available (it is grayed-out in the designer).

[NielsJ]

You cannot change the workflow's steps when it is in draft mode. You have to copy the workflow.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Create a new new status 'Draft' and modify the linked status in that workflow alone to the new status.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Is the workflow 'Active'? Check this out:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Workflow#ConfiguringWorkflow-Editinganactiveworkflow

You will have to copy the workflow, modify it and then activate it.

[Chad Barnes]

Sorry. I don't quite follow. I can create a new status. But, the tool does not allow me to link the "Create" step to a new "Draft" status. And renaming the "Open" status to "Draft" only displays "Draft" in some interfaces, inconsistently. Sometimes the workflow diagram will show the stauts as "Draft", other times it will show it as "Open".

I'm sure I am missing something fundamental in changing this initial "Open" status to a different name but I cannot find related information in the documentation.

[Chad Barnes]

Workflow is in draft mode. Still cannot change the initial transition to point to a new status.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Draft mode in the editor only allows certain actions. Changing the create transition's end point is not one of them, so you need to copy the workflow and edit the new one, then migrate to it.

[Chad Barnes]

I've again tried the copy workflow:

• copied the default jira workflow
• creted the draft status

Opened designer and found I am not given the option to alter the create transition:

This is in JIRA 4.4.3.

[Chad Barnes]

I just discovered this cannot be done in the designer (or, at least, I don't know how to do it there). Instead, it can be done from the "Workflow Steps" interface.

• Click "Steps"
• Click "Open" (to view the Open step digram with incoming and outgoing transitions)
• In the diagram click the "Create (1)" incoming transition
• Edit the transition to point to the new "Draft" status

I have a feeling one or more of you were trying to tell me this but I was assuming I could use the designer interface.

Thanks for the help!