Purpose

While Atlassian provides an official method for importing workflows directly from the Atlassian Marketplace into Jira Cloud, there may be situations where you need more flexibility or control over your workflow configuration. In this article, we'll explore an alternative approach that allows you to modify workflows outside of the Jira Cloud environment and then import them back.

Solution

1. Setup a JIRA Server application installation as per Migrating from Jira Cloud to Server.
2. Import the workflow as per Using XML to create a workflow.
3. Migrate back from JIRA Core Server to Cloud as per Importing issues.