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This is the documentation of JSU for Jira Cloud. If you are using JSU on Jira Server or on Jira Data Center, you can find the documentation heresee our JSU Server/Data Center documentation. |
Description
The 'Follow Up Transition' Post Function will evaluate the Workflow Conditions of all the next transitions on the target status of the current transition. If exactly one condition is valid, that transition will be triggered as a 'follow up'.
Consider the following workflow:
- Our issue has a mandatory number custom field.
- At the end of the 'Go' transition, we have configured to 'Follow Up Transition' Post Function.
- Each transition leading away from the status 'Junction' have workflow condition:
- 'Under Five' has the condition: Number field < 5?
- 'Exactly Five' has the condition: Number field == 5?
- 'Over Five' has the condition: Number field > 5?
- When the user performs the 'Go' transition, this will always trigger a follow-up transition.
For example, if the user enters Number=3 during the 'Go' transition, he will end up at the status 'In Progress'. If he enters 42, this will lead him to 'Closed'.
In this example, we have been careful to configure our workflow conditions so that always only and exactly 1 one condition can be true. Like this this, the user will never get 'stuck' at the 'Junction' state. Instead the 'Follow Up Transition' will lead him to the correct end state.
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Tip: Since any workflow condition can be used for the follow-ups, this provides you great flexibility. The JSU app has some quite useful additional Workflow Conditions . But you might also use some of another other third-party app.
Configuration
Conditions
However to complete your setup, you have to configure at least one workflow conditions. The Follow-up Transition post function does not have any additional parameters to configure, however you must have a least one workflow condition configured.
Conditions
Let's continue the example from above, where a number field is evaluated. We will configure even 3 three conditions - ; one for each outgoing transition from the 'Junction' status.
Under Five
Exactly Five
Over Five
Asynchronous Execution
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Examples
Here are some more ideas , on how you might use the 'Follow Up Transition' Post Function.
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A simpler more common case is, that you have only 2 two transitions leading away and you evaluate basically the same condition, but at one condition negated.
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Again you can use the Value Field Condition Conditions for this setup.
- Check it: 'Follow Up Transition' Post Function
- Yes: Condition a == b?
- No: Condition a != b?
Fast Forward
Some extra step steps in your workflow might be only necessary if some condition is not fulfilled. Otherwise, that step could be skipped.
Management Approval
See the Use Case /wiki/spaces/JSUCLOUD/pages/27801892 for another real-life example.
Trouble shootingTroubleshooting
My workflow gets stuck in the Junction status
Not exactly one condition
Usually, the problem can be tracked down, by manually walking through what the follow up post function would do:
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If there is only 1 button, there might be something wrong with that following transition. For example, a validator could prevent the transition to get completed. Try (with the same user, who got stuck in Junction) to click that button to see what happens.
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Another reason might be that the transition which is triggered does not run through. For example, if it has a validator configured, which fails.