Open new issues of same issuetype in other workflow? Is that possible?

[Sandra Meessen]

Hello,

I have a project with 2 workflows A and B. Workflow A is for issuetype Epic and workflow B is for issuetypes Change and Bug. 

From now on we want issuetype Change to use workflow A and keep all current and past Change issues in workflow B. Is that possible?

Thank you for your help.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

I am afraid that is not possible. An issue can only be in one workflow. You will have to migrate all the issues (old and current) to the new workflow.

Having said that, when you migrate to the new workflow, the history of status changes in the old issues will remain. It will also record the migration to the new workflow. You just need to pick a new status based on the new workflow. If both the workflows has the same end status, they might even end up the same as the history is retained.

Maybe you can create an archived project to keep the old workflow separate, if that is critical.