How to display draft workflows?

[Deleted user]

Hi,

I need to delete draft workflows however i didn't find them neither in GUI nor using java api.

Any idea?

Thanks

Ahmed

[ChristopherChilds]

A little late to the party but I think @[deleted] This is what you are after:

import com.atlassian.jira.workflow.WorkflowManager

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def workflowManager = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(WorkflowManager)

def allWorkflows = workflowManager.getWorkflowsIncludingDrafts()

return (allWorkflows.each {it -> it.isDraftWorkflow()}).name

[Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_]

Hi Ahmed,

I can confirm that Jira stores Draft workflows under the Inactive tab on the workflows page as described here.

This means that if you navigate to here in your instance then you will see any draft workflows not associated to any projects.

If there are no inactive workflows then this will indicate that you have no inactive draft workflows to be deleted inside of your instance.

If you need to delete a workflow still associated to a project then Jira will not allow this until you associate a new workflow to the project to make the workflow that you want to delete inactive.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,

Kristian

[Deleted user]

Hi Kristian,

Draft workflows are workflows copies created in edition mode. They are applicable for active and inactive ones. 

Extract from the link provided : When you edit an active workflow, Jira first creates a draft of it, that you can then modify as you see fit.

Draft mode is also applicable for workflow scheme.

I found a method hasDraftWorkflow() wich returns true for some active workflows in my jira instance.

Thanks

Ahmed

[Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_]

Hi Ahmed,

Thank you for your response.

I do not know how the hasDraftWorkflow() method works and would advise for each worklow it returns true for to check if the draft workflows show in the Inactive section of the workflows page.

I believe by default the draft workflows will be given a name such as Copy of <WorkflowName>.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Kristian

[Deleted user]

Hi Kristian,

I found the solution :)

Use workflowManager.getDraftWorkflow(parentWorkflowName) to retrieve draft workflows.

Use workflowManager.deleteDraftWorkflow(parentWorkflowName) to delete them

Regards,

Ahmed

[Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_]

Hi Ahmed,

Thank you for confirming that you found the solution, I will note down this myself for future.

Regards,

Kristian

[Fazila Ashraf]

Hi @[deleted]   

Did you find a way to list out all draft workflows in the JIRA instance? Even the ones for which you dont know who is the parent workflow?

[ChristopherChilds]

A little late to the party but I think @Fazila Ashraf  This is what you are after:

def workflowManager = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(WorkflowManager)

def allWorkflows = workflowManager.getWorkflowsIncludingDrafts()