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Usage cases

You want to

Classically, you have implemented a suspensive Step like Suspended, Request Information,  ...

For workflow like beside, with JIRA out of the box, you will have :

• to create a transition from each Step where you want to implement a suspensive Steps.
• During these transitions, you would have to memorize from which Step you come from.
• From this suspensive step, you would have to create a transition from which you come from, with condition based on the memorized Step.

implement some Triage of your incoming JIRA Issues with a move of them in the correct Project/Issue Type :

• You want to allow your users to move quickly an Issue to another Project and/or other Issue Type,
• You want to implement an Auto-Triage for incoming Mail, by using Auto-Transition and Issue Move

• .

How it works

By defining this Back To Previoususing this Move Issue Post-Function in your workflow, you will be able to force as new Step, the Previous Step where the Issue was before to reach the current Step.It will be, also, more simple to have :move it to another Project and/or other Issue Type,

• One Global Transition to the suspensive Step or few Transition from a part of Steps
• One recursive Transition from this suspensive Step to itself with the Back To Previous Post-Function

Configuring the Feature

To use this Move Issue Post-Function, please follow these steps :

• Create you suspensive Step,
• Append incoming transitions (One Global Transition or few Step Transitions, depending your needs)
• Append a Recursive Transition
• It will give by example such below Steps
  
  
• On this Recursive Transition, you You will have just to add  the Back to Previous Step to Move Issue Post-Function to any wanted transition
  For more information on adding a Post Function in Workflow, please see JIRA: Adding a Post Function
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• Its configuration allows you to specify ...
  
  
  • The Project where you want move the issue,
  • The Issue Type to use for the target Issue,
  • The Status in which the Issue has to be set,
  
  
  For all these parameters, you can specify that it has to be moved in the same Project, Issue Type or Status.
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• When added, the Post-Function

  has to

  should be among the

  first one of

  latest defined Post-

  Function

  Functions (its weight is set to

  1

  1000).

• You will end up with a transition looking like: 
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  And the XML Declaration as follow : 

  Code Block
  language xml
  <post-function > <function type="class"> <arg name="targetProjectId">10240</arg> <arg name="full.module.key">fr.alkaes.minyaa.jira-plugin-minyaa-workflowsback-to-previous-step-issues-function<workflowsmoveIssueFunction</arg> <arg name="targetIssueTypeId">24</arg> <arg name="targetStatusId">10215</arg> <arg name="class.name">fr.alkaes.myaawf.workflow.postfunction.BackToPreviousStepFunction<MoveIssueFunction</arg> </function> </post-function>

• When the Post-Function will be executed, it will check for Transition History, and will identify the previous Step (different from the current), and then it will create a new Step occurrence in the Workflow, like if there was some outgoing transition to this previous Step.