Jira 8 Administration Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

We need to add a new workflow condition to the transition we want to apply restrictions to:

1. Select and edit the workflow to configure.
2. Select Diagram mode.
3. Click on the Frozen global workflow transition.
4. Click on the Conditions link from the panel on the right-hand side.
5. Click on Add condition, select Value Field (JSU) from the list, and click on Add.
6. Configure the condition with the following parameters:
   • The Status field for Field
   • The not-equal sign, !=, for Condition
   • Frozen for Value
   • String for Comparison Type

This means that the transition will be shown only if the issue's status field value is not Frozen as shown in the following screenshot:

7. Click on the Add button to complete the condition setup.

At this point, ...