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 limitations:
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 destination 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.
Getting ready
As usual, you need to have a workflow you...
