How to conditionally show a transition screen?

[Andrew Ting]

Hi,

Is it possible to conditionally show a transition screen based on a field value? i.e if a field has a certain value, then when the user clicks the button to transition the issue then a transition screen will appear. If this field does not have a certain value then the issue is automatically transitioned to the next state.

Thanks!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can have two transitions, one when the field has a certain value and one when the field does not have that value. The first one will have a transition screen and the seocnd one will not have the screen.

Value field condition in JIRA Suite Utilities can be used for this.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jobin doesn't explicitly say "Use a condition on the workflow" here, in case you were wondering. A "condition" stops the user being offered a transition. You'd want to put conditions on both transitions - one saying "allow if field is filled in" and the other saying "allow if field is empty". The users will only ever see one transition.

[Alexander Burk]

Interesting approach. There is still the problem that you need two different transition names because they need to be workflow unique. Any solution for this?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Use the same words, but put extra spaces in them if you have more than one word in a name.  Or add punctuation

[Heather R]

I'm curious if a fix for this was put in since this post - we'd like to conditionally do a lot of different things, some of which are on Create which makes it tougher to do the suggested answer for this one...