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Using global transitions
While a common transition is a great way to
share
transitions in a workflow and reduce the
amount of management work that will otherwise be required, it has the following two limit-
ations:
• Currently, it is only supported in the classic diagram mode (if running on older
JIRA versions)
• You still have to manually create the transitions between the various steps
As your workflow starts to become complicated, explicitly creating the transitions becomes
a tedious job; this is where
global transitions
come in.
A global transition is similar to a
common transition in the sense that they both share the property of having a single destina-
tion status. The difference between the two is that the global transition is a single transition
that is available to all the statuses in a workflow.
In this recipe, we will look at how to use global transitions so that issues can be
transitioned to the
Backlog
status throughout the workflow.
