JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Using global transitions

While a common transition is a great way to share transitions in a workflow and reduce the amount of management work that will otherwise be required, it has the following two limitations:

• Currently, it is only supported in the classic diagram mode (if running on older JIRA versions)
• You still have to manually create the transitions between the various

As your workflow starts becoming more complicated, explicitly creating the transitions becomes a tedious job; this is where global transitions come in.

A global transition is similar to a common transition in the sense that they both share the property of having a single destination status. The difference between the two is that the global transition is a single transition that ...