Chapter 3. JIRA Workflows

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up different workflows for your project
  • Capturing additional information during workflow transitions
  • Using common transitions
  • Using global transitions
  • Restricting the availability of workflow transitions
  • Validating user input in workflow transitions
  • Performing additional processing after a transition is executed
  • Rearranging the workflow transition bar
  • Restricting the resolution values in a transition
  • Preventing issue updates in selected statuses
  • Making a field required during workflow transition
  • Creating custom workflow transition logic

Introduction

Workflows are one of the core and most powerful features in JIRA. They control how issues in JIRA move from one stage to another ...

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