How to remove optional post functions from the initial transition in a workflow

Symptoms

It is not possible to remove or re-order 'essential' post functions when added to the initial transition. The post functions affecting this behavior are:

• Re-index an issue to keep indexes in sync with the database.

• Stores updates to an issue (no change history is created).

• Add a comment to an issue if one is entered during a transition.

• Set issue status to the linked status of the destination workflow step.

Cause

When you add a transition to any workflow in JIRA, JIRA automatically adds 5 'essential post functions' to that transition, which cannot be deleted.

On the other hand, a workflow's 'initial transition' only has 2 'essential post functions':

• One of which is 1 of the 5 'essential post functions' (required for other transitions)

• The other of which is unique to any workflow's 'initial transition'.

However, you can add the remaining 4 'essential post functions' (required for other transitions) to the 'initial transition', as 'optional post functions'.

This is a bug tracked here JRASERVER-25070 - You cannot delete / remove optional post functions which have been added to the 'initial transition' (i.e. 'Create' transition) of a JIRA workflow.

Workaround

1. Download the workflow as XML

   

2. Locate the initial 'Create Issue' transition, which would look similar to this:

   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 <initial-actions> <action id="1" name="Create Issue"> <meta name="opsbar-sequence">0</meta> <meta name="jira.i18n.title">common.forms.create</meta> <validators> <validator name="" type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.validator.PermissionValidator</arg> <arg name="permission">Create Issue</arg> </validator> </validators> <results> <unconditional-result old-status="Finished" status="Open" step="1"> <post-functions> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.issue.IssueCreateFunction</arg> </function> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.issue.UpdateIssueStatusFunction</arg> </function> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.misc.CreateCommentFunction</arg> </function> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.issue.IssueStoreFunction</arg> </function> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.issue.IssueReindexFunction</arg> </function> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.event.FireIssueEventFunction</arg> <arg name="eventTypeId">1</arg> </function> </post-functions> </unconditional-result> </results> </action> </initial-actions>

3. Remove the unwanted post functions. In this case we are removing the 4 post functions which can't be removed from the UI, so the XML ends up looking like this:

   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 <initial-actions> <action id="1" name="Create Issue"> <meta name="opsbar-sequence">0</meta> <meta name="jira.i18n.title">common.forms.create</meta> <validators> <validator name="" type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.validator.PermissionValidator</arg> <arg name="permission">Create Issue</arg> </validator> </validators> <results> <unconditional-result old-status="Finished" status="Open" step="1"> <post-functions> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.issue.IssueCreateFunction</arg> </function> <function type="class"> <arg name="class.name">com.atlassian.jira.workflow.function.event.FireIssueEventFunction</arg> <arg name="eventTypeId">1</arg> </function> </post-functions> </unconditional-result> </results> </action> </initial-actions>

4. Import the workflow XML