Work item transitions
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Is there any easier way to edit the transitions? If you have a lot of States then the transitions section scrolls off the page. Then you can't see which line is what from the From column. So you have to scroll back and forth to make sure you have the right line.
Hi Jeff,
not that I am aware off. There is a request to get a graphical workflow editor you might want to comment to too: https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=104019
As a side note, workflows with too many states are hard to comprehend. But I must admit that the number of states and transitions displayed is not very big.
Hi Jeff,
not that I am aware off. There is a request to get a graphical workflow editor you might want to comment to too: https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=104019
As a side note, workflows with too many states are hard to comprehend. But I must admit that the number of states and transitions displayed is not very big.
Thanks! I did add a quick comment to that work item. I didn't think there was something easier. I guess for now when I need to edit a transition that scolls off the screen I'll have to resize my client to go across mutliple monitors to see everything.
If you are at RTC 2.0.x.x ...... there is a way I did it. It's a little hokey, but saved my sanity. (Also, this won't work for 3.0.1)
Edit the "TO Workflow state" that you want to change and put a '0' as the first character in the name.
Save the Change and click on the refresh icon.
This will move your "TO" Workflow state to the top-left area of the Workflow matrix.
Now you can easily make any changes to any FROM workflows that need to flow to it by going down the screen. AND if you need to change the Workflow in question to change what IT flows into, well, you know it is the first row that you are working with. So it will be easy enough to know which ones to change.
Then just edit the "TO" Worklflow state again and remove the '0' from the beginning of the name.
Unfortunately 3.0.1 no longer sorts the workflow state names when you do the save and refresh. So this method won't work. Unless they implement https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=178090
Edit the "TO Workflow state" that you want to change and put a '0' as the first character in the name.
Save the Change and click on the refresh icon.
This will move your "TO" Workflow state to the top-left area of the Workflow matrix.
Now you can easily make any changes to any FROM workflows that need to flow to it by going down the screen. AND if you need to change the Workflow in question to change what IT flows into, well, you know it is the first row that you are working with. So it will be easy enough to know which ones to change.
Then just edit the "TO" Worklflow state again and remove the '0' from the beginning of the name.
Unfortunately 3.0.1 no longer sorts the workflow state names when you do the save and refresh. So this method won't work. Unless they implement https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=178090