WORKFLOW: Can not set a transition between statuses

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

Hello!

I am trying to set a transition between status "Not estimated" and status "Backlog".

However, I can not do that - Im getting an error. There are screenshots below.

Why I can not do this, and what should I do so I get that transition?

Thanks in advance.

[Pete Singleton · Accepted solution]

I believe this is an outstanding bug in Jira.  See info here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/cannot-add-transitions-or-delete-steps-in-draft-workflows-203392961.html

Can you try to workaround as suggested in the article?

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

Thank you! That worked!

I did the following:

1. Copied current workflow

2. Created the transition I needed

3. Assigned that workflow to my Scheme instead of the original one

HOWEVER

Then I tried to create new status and new transition in the new workflow.

And got the same error.

I tried to do that in one another workflow and also got that error there.

It looks bad if I will get that bug over and over again.

Creating statuses and transitions is a basic operation, it looks insane if I will have to make such complicated actions every time I wanna update my workflow.

How can we fix it permanently?

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

^

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

@Pete Singleton hola! ^ Help, please

[Pete Singleton]

As I mentioned, this is a known bug.  It is down to Atlassian to fix.

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

@Pete Singleton so, !!every time!! I wanna update the workflow - I have to make all these steps to avoid that bug?

[Andrey Ponomarenko]

@Pete Singleton ^

[Pete Singleton]

There's only three steps - copy the workflow, edit the workflow, apply the workflow to the scheme.  And the bug only applies to certain types of edit.