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 here.


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:

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 condition can be true. Like this the user will never get 'stuck' at the 'Junction' state. Instead the 'Follow Up Transition' will lead him to the correct end state.


(info) 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 third party app.

Configuration

Conditions

However to complete your setup, you have to configure at least one workflow conditions. Let's continue the example from above, where a number field is evaluated. We will configure even 3 conditions - one for each outgoing transition from the 'Junction' status.

Under Five

Exactly Five

Over Five

Asynchronous Execution

Examples

Here are some more ideas, how you might use the 'Follow Up Transition' Post Function.

Yes / No

A simpler more common case is, that you have only 2 transitions leading away and you evaluate basically the same condition, but at one condition negated.

Again you can use the Value Field Condition Conditions for this setup.

Fast Forward

Some extra step 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 shooting

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:

(info) It's important that you do your analysis with the same user, that got stuck in the Junction status. There might be issues with permissions, that could lead to a different result, depending on the user performing the transition.


If you now look at such an issue, which got stuck in the Junction status: How many transition buttons does it have? Only if there is exactly one transition button, 'Follow up' will be triggered. If you have none or more than one transition button, you have to review your workflow conditions on the transitions leading out from the Junction status.

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.

Triggered transition fails

Another reason might be that the transition which is triggered does not run through. For example if it has a validator configured, which fails.