How to activate the inactive workflow ?

[Laxmipathi Varma]

1. Went to activa and inactive 

2. not able to find the workflow which is inactive making active

[Alexander Ling · Accepted solution]

Hello @Laxmipathi Varma

Have you checked out this link? https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/managing-your-workflows-776636587.html 

It guides you through the necessary steps to make a workflow active.

For a workflow to be active you need to associate them with a workflow scheme that can eventually be associatd with a project. I would recommend following the link and hopefully that will answer your question.

[cmartinez]

Thanks a lot!!!

[Dan Wade]

Thank you for that answer! It save me a good hour of time.

[YTZ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Laxmipathi Varma 

All the unassigned workflows are inactive until they are assigned to a project.

So in order to active the workflow just go to that workflow which will be in Inactive Workflows and assign it to a project which you needs to. It will automatically gets active

Hope it helps!

Teja

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Think of active and inactive as indicators of whether a workflow is in use, not a flag you set (a flag would be of no use - what matters is if a workflow is set to be used by a project or not)

[Hasmik Stepanyan]

how inactive workflows to do active

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

See YTZ's answer and my supporting comment.

[Abdullah Said]

instruction unclear and hard to understand

[Abdullah Said]

importing a workflow is not available for business or software project, i've checked them. i seen this as a poorly designed UX, its really unclear on what to do

[mariana.garcia]

I'm having an issue here, I followed all the steps and when I have to assign a project to the workflow scheme, I cannot find for my life the option WORKFLOWS inside the configuration of the project.

Following the steps of the link mentioned above is not helping, anyone?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Are you in a Next-Gen project?  They don't have workflow settings.

[mariana.garcia]

how can I verify that?

I do have the option of creating workflows or using the default one, but they are all unassigned and inactive

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Look to the bottom left of the screen when you are administrating the project.  It should say something like "this is a next-gen project"

[Khyati kumar]

How to convert next gen project to normal or how to add workflow to next gen projects?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You don't. 

As I said in June, Next-gen projects do not have workflow like Classic.

You can't convert project types either.  Closest you can get is to create a new project of the other type and use "bulk edit" to move all the issues from the old one to the new one.

[Joanna_Nowak]

It doesn't work for me. When I am trying to assign the workflow to the project it is not listed for me, so I cannot do any action. It's like a dead end. The scheme is inactive, so it's not on the list. It's not on the list, because it's inactive... help!

[Laxmipathi Varma]

If anyone can help me with the below Question it would be really appreciated it. 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Story-points-filed-is-missing-from-the-issue-screen/qaq-p/1198665#M382405

[Laxmipathi Varma]

Thank you guys I have got an answer and working fine for me, Jira should make it a bit simple the more updates they are making they are making more complicated. I love the Jira older cloud