The goal for the enhancement in the Workflow List screen consists into allowing a more quicker load of the list. This feature is available only with a valid license. |
When Jira loads the list of Workflows, it performs a parsing of XML Worklow descriptor for each Workflow, in order to display :
You can imagine that this way to render the Workflow list is no efficient.
And more you have workflows (actives or inactives), more the delay to render the list is long, and sometime ended with the Timeout.
This feature is available only with a valid license. |
Atlassian has opt to redesign this screen for Jira Cloud :
The enhancement provided by Alkaes JIRA Plugin Field Administration Enhanced consists into following changes :
A full rewrite is expected with a pagination, but not yet.
To benefit this feature, go to Field Administration Enhanced Settings (See Settings), and set as expected the below settings
Settings | Description | Goal |
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Workflow details load disabled | If No : Native behavior : All details (descriptions, Author, Update Date) are displayed else if Yes : Transition Screens are loaded on demand in View Screen | You can also avoid to render systematically the relevant projects. In case of large instance, it will reduce the size of the page and will allow you to charge the list on demand. |
Page size for Worflows | Specify here the size of page for Workflow screen (Nb of Workflows displayed). (If not defined, the applied page size will be unlimited, like default Jira behavior).. | You can also defined the page size for Workflow. In large instance (i.e. with 7600 Workflows), 10 workflows per page is listed in less 3 to 5 seconds depending on size on Workflow descriptor, excepted on 1st call when internal Cache of Workflows are refreshed (native to Jira) |
For reminder, by default, the native rendering looks like this ...
All parts highlighted in Yellow are extracted from XML Workflow descriptor. |
After having enable the feature, .
and few changes are provided :