once you close an issue editing is no longer possible.how does jira know the disable editing?

[Flavius Nopcea]

Is this done by simply checking the issue status name = 'Closed'? It would be silly in my opinion.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

There's a "property" on the step in the workflow that says "issue editing is false". Status doesn't matter.

[Flavius Nopcea]

here are the 4 properties that exist on the transition:

wich of them tells me that editting is not possible?

opsbar-sequence	60	Delete
jira.i18n.submit	closeissue.close	Delete
jira.i18n.title	closeissue.title	Delete
commit.command.mapping	close

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not the properties on the transition - the properties on the step. A transition is an action, and a step is a state, description or attribute if you like.

It's not useful to try to say "on transition disallow edit" because a transition lasts a fraction of a second and by it's nature is an edit in itself anyway. It IS useful to say "when issue has this attribute, disallow edit"

[Renjith Pillai]

Please check this article, it explains the steps.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Allow+editing+of+Closed+Issues

[pschaff01]

Hello Flavius.

Yes, Jira disables the editing when the issue status is turned to "Closed".

I could create an Improvement Request if you want to, so let me know about it.

Best Regards.