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Test your workflow!

Workflows can be complicated (smile). Define a reasonable test scenario for your workflow on a test project or test system. Often, it is the only way to find errors before putting your workflow in production.

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Errors

Post functions are run after the transition has already occurred - there is no turning back. When you see your post function not working as expected, and you want to check if it is due to a configuration error, go through the log messages in the Transition logs page. This is the go-to place to understand what went wrong.

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Custom fields not changing

  • Make sure the custom field is defined for the issue type you have.

  • Make sure it is one of the supported Custom Field Types when using set. Use one of the copy custom fields instead if appropriate. Otherwise,

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    open an issue to get support for unsupported types.

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Subtask have different issue types

You cannot create a subtask with the same issue type as the parent since Jira has unique subtask issue types (smile). You can do something similar by using a naming convention that creates subtask types with similar names. For instance, Bug and Bug-sub-task. Then the %parent_issuetype%-subtask can be used to create a subtask with a name related type.

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