From the course: Jira Core Concepts and Advanced Features by Pearson
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Understanding workflow concepts - Jira Tutorial
From the course: Jira Core Concepts and Advanced Features by Pearson
Understanding workflow concepts
Let's begin by going over JIRA workflow concepts before we dive into demonstration. Behind the scenes, there is a structure to a workflow, composed of a number of metadata concepts. What end users see is just the statuses, and they transition issues from one status to another, usually by dragging an issue from one column on a board to another. But the structure that sits behind that is what allows all of that to work, and provides numerous customization points. A workflow is composed of some number of steps, with each step containing exactly one status. So if we have a workflow with three statuses, To Do, In Progress, and Done, then there are three workflow steps, one for each status. In addition to containing a status, a step also has one or more transitions into or out of that step, to or from another step. So the transitions define the path of the workflow. Transitions have a lot of hook points for customization. The primary concepts they contain are post functions, conditions…
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