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Patrick Li
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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Managing workflows


Workflows are controlled and managed centrally from the JIRA administration console, so you need to be an administrator to create and configure workflows. To manage workflows, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.

  2. Browse to the JIRA administration console.

  3. Select the Issues tab and then the Workflows option. This will bring up the View Workflows page:

From the View Workflows page, you will be able to see a list of all the available workflows. You can also create new workflows and manage existing ones. The page is divided into two sections, Active and Inactive. Active workflows are being used by projects, and inactive ones are not. By default, the Inactive section is collapsed, so the page will only display active workflows. The preceding screenshot shows the Inactive section being expanded.

JIRA comes with a default read-only workflow called jira. This workflow is applied to projects that do not have any specific workflow applied. For this reason...

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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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