Block Linked Issues

Usage cases

The basic usage case is to block a Transition of a Parent Issue until all its Sub-Tasks are Resolved or Closed.

But it may be also these others use cases:

• Block a Resolve transition until Linked Issues having a Block Issue Link Type are Resolved.
• Or Block Start Progress Transition of a Sub-Task until its Parent Issue is In Progress
• and many others ....

How it works

By defining this Workflow Condition in a Transition of your workflow, you are able to block/allow the transition depending of the Status reached by Linked Issues .

Configuring the Feature

To configure the Block Linked Issues depending on Status Workflow Condition, please follow these steps :

1. Add the Block Linked Issues depending on Status to the wanted transition.
   For more information on adding a Condition in Workflow, please see JIRA: Configuring Workflow
    
2. Its configuration allows you to specify which Issue Link Types and Statuses are concerned by the condition.
    
   You have to select
   • The list of Issue Link Types (Inward or Outward) to consider,
   • The list of Statuses required for allowing the transition,
   
   
   
3. You will end up with a condition looking like: 
   

XML Declaration

And the XML Declaration as follow :

<condition type="class">
	<arg name="outwardLinkTypesSelected">10000,</arg>
	<arg name="inwardLinkTypesSelected"></arg>
	<arg name="class.name">fr.alkaes.myaawf.workflow.condition.BlockingOnLinkedIssuesStatusCondition</arg>
	<arg name="selectedStatuses">3,</arg>
</condition>