Reordering workflow actions in JIRA

On a JIRA workflow, the available actions that appear on the View Issue page are normally ordered in the sequence those transitions were created in. This works fine most of the time, but, in some cases, we will want to change the order in which it appears on the issue screen!

To achieve this logical ordering of workflow actions on the View Issue page, JIRA provides us with a workflow property named opsbar-sequence. Let us see how we modify the ordering using this property instead of tampering with the workflow.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Log in as a JIRA Administrator.
  2. Navigate to Administration | Issues | Workflows.
  3. Create a draft of the workflow, if it is active. Navigate to the transition, which needs ...

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