Create a Workflow and add statues, transitions in Jira

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In the previous post, we saw “How to Activate/Associate Jira Workflow with project?“. Now we will see how to create a workflow and add statues, transition in Jira.

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To create a workflow we need Jira admin permission first. IF we have admin permission then only we can go for workflow creation.

Please follow the below steps:

Once you clicked on “Issues” below screen will be open and then you need to select workflow

Now click on “Add workflows” and provide workflow name and description as shown in below screen

Once you will click on “Add” your workflow will be created and it will be inactive mode as shown in below screen:

Since we have already created inactive workflow now we need to add Statues
By default inactive workflow will be in edit mode.
IF you are opening any inactive workflow then you need to click on Edit as shown in below screen:

Now we are going to add statues in an inactive mode in the Diagram view
Click on “Add Status” and provide “Status name”
Here we are going to add the “In progress” status and click on “Add” as shown in below screen:

In Progress status has been added successfully as shown in below screen.

Since we have created the “In Progress” workflow but still there is no transition for it.
So we will create transitions from Open to In progress
Click on any dots from Open Status and then Drag and drop to In progress status as shown in the below screen