How to associate a workflow to a workflow scheme with Jira CLI

This article explains how to associate a workflow to a workflow scheme using the Jira Command Line Interface (CLI) app.

Instructions

Use the associateWorkflow action to associate a workflow to the workflow scheme with name and workflowScheme as mandatory parameters.

name: Name of the workflow
workflowScheme: Workflow scheme name or ID. Use blank for default scheme.

Execute the following CLI command:

--action associateWorkflow --name "Associate_Workflow_1" --workflowScheme "Associate_Workflow_Scheme_1"

For this example, we created a new workflow named Associate_Workflow_1, and workflow schema named Associate_Workflow_Scheme_1 as shown:

In your instance, the terminal output and result in Jira is displayed. For this example, the following outputs appear upon execution of the given CLI command:

Output on the terminal:

Workflow 'Associate_Workflow_1' associated to 'Associate_Workflow_Scheme_1'.
Output in Jira:

If you are creating new workflow and workflow scheme on global level, they can be viewed in inactive workflows and inactive workflow schemes respectively.
You can associate an inactive workflow scheme to an inactive workflow.
You can associate an inactive Workflow scheme to an active workflow.
It is recommended to test this scenario in a test environment before implementing it in production.