JIRA JQL

How to copy a JIRA workflow from an existing project

JIRA JQL

How to copy a JIRA workflow from an existing project

Jira Software assist in involving all the members of your project team (PM’s, Developers, Testers) plan, track, and release great quality software. A JIRA workflow scheme defines a set of mappings between a workflow and a JIRA issue type. Workflow schemes are associated with a project and are able to be configured to suit a particular way of managing your project flow. However, sometimes you want to use the same workflow on multiple JIRA projects and you do not want to waste time re-creating a workflow if it is already in use elsewhere.

Association of a JIRA workflow to a Project

  1. Choose  > Projects, and select the relevant project. The Project Summary page is displayed.
  2. Click Workflows on the left of the Project Summary page (you can also click the More link in the Workflows section in the middle of the screen). This is the current workflow scheme used by the project.
  3. Click the Switch Scheme link to display the Associate Workflow Scheme to Project page.
  4. Select the relevant workflow scheme from the Scheme list and click the Associate button to begin the migration process.
    Each issue has to be in a valid status. The valid statuses for an issue are defined by its workflow. This means that when changing a workflow, you may need to tell JIRA the status for specific issues after the change.
  5. A screen displays that indicates the progress of migrating all the project’s issues to the updated scheme’s workflows. Acknowledge to finish the process.

And that’s it, pretty simple but definitely saves a lot of time when setting up new projects. For more quick tips of how to work efficiently with JIRA be sure to read out JIRA Tips and Tricks post.