Clicking on a Project's Workflow Tab Results in Step cannot be null

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Symptoms

  1. In JIRA's administration menu, select a project and click on the Workflow tab.  This results in an error message as follows:

    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Step cannot be null.
    	at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.AbstractJiraWorkflow.getLinkedStatusObject(AbstractJiraWorkflow.java:254)
    	at com.atlassian.jira.projectconfig.contextproviders.WorkflowContextProvider.createWorkflow(WorkflowContextProvider.java:214)
    	at com.atlassian.jira.projectconfig.contextproviders.WorkflowContextProvider.addWorkflowData(WorkflowContextProvider.java:135)
    	at com.atlassian.jira.projectconfig.contextproviders.WorkflowContextProvider.getContextMap(WorkflowContextProvider.java:80)
  2. While viewing workflow steps, you see a missing step:
  3. The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:

    2012-03-08 17:32:44,064 http-6060-9 ERROR      [500ErrorPage.jsp] Exception caught in 500 page Step cannot be null.
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Step cannot be null.
            at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.AbstractJiraWorkflow.getLinkedStatusObject(AbstractJiraWorkflow.java:254)
            at com.atlassian.jira.projectconfig.contextproviders.WorkflowContextProvider.createWorkflow(WorkflowContextProvider.java:214)
            at com.atlassian.jira.projectconfig.contextproviders.WorkflowContextProvider.addWorkflowData(WorkflowContextProvider.java:135)

Cause

There is a missing Step within a project's workflow transition.

Resolution

Edit the Workflow Transition to add a Step

  1. Create a draft of the existing workflow and edit the transition to add a step.
  2. Detailed instructions on this is available at Configuring Workflows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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