JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Using common transitions

Often, you will have transitions that need to be made available from several different statuses in a workflow, such as the Resolve and Close transitions. In other words, these are transitions that have a common destination status but many different originating statuses.

To help you simplify the process of creating these transitions, JIRA lets you reuse an existing transition as a common transition if it has the same destination status.

Note

Common transitions are transitions that have the same destination status but different originating statuses.

A common transition has an additional advantage of ensuring that transition screens and other relevant configurations, such as validators, will stay consistent. Otherwise, you will ...