A workflow status can be deleted or deprecated if it is no longer to be used. This article describes how to do both.


Prerequisites

  • You must have "Change" access rights to the CMS project OR the Administrator role in the server 


Deprecating a Status

One can deprecate a status so that it is not available any longer. One advantage of deprecation is that the status can be activated again, if needed. 

  1. Go to Workflows and select the workflow having the status you wish to deprecate.
  2. Select the status in the Statuses list.
  3. Check the Deprecated checkbox.



In the below example, the "Test" status has been deprecated, and is therefore not available in the Status drop-down for users. 


Deleting a Status

  1. To delete a status entirely, select the status in the Statuses list.
  2. Right-click and select Delete status. Click OK to confirm the deletion of the status. 


Note: All existing references to this status are removed from the existing issue notes logs.

Example of a "source" status that has been used in the past for this issue and is now deleted from the workflow. The note will indicate "STATUS_NOT_FOUND":