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All JIRA projects contain issues that your team can view, work on, and transition through stages of work — from creation to completion. The path that your issues take is called a workflow. Each JIRA workflow is composed of a set of statuses and transitions that your issue moves through during its lifecycle, and typically represents work processes within your organization.  

In addition, JIRA uses workflow schemes to define the relationship between issue types and workflows. Workflow schemes are associated with a project, and make it possible to use a different workflow for different combinations of project and issue types.

If you need to edit or create a more advanced workflow to match how your team or organization works, you can log in as a JIRA Administrator with global permission to access and create your workflow.

What you can do...Documentation
  • Edit existing workflows
  • Create new workflows
  • Configure existing workflows 

Working with workflows

  • Add a workflow scheme
  • Configure a workflow scheme
  • Managing workflow schemes

Configuring workflow schemes

  • Import and export workflows
  • Activate and deactivate workflows

Managing your workflows

  • Adding custom events
  • Configuring the initial status
  • Working in text mode
  • Configuring workflow triggers
  • Using validators and custom fields
  • Using XML to create a workflow
  • Workflow properties

Advanced workflow configuration

Last modified on May 5, 2017

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