General

From Jira 9 Atlassian moved all the transition buttons to the dropdown menu. All the Jira transitions in the dropdown render asynchronously on-demand when a user opens the dropdown.

Additionally, Atlassian removed the status field and the View workflow link from the issue details section. The View workflow link now appears as an option in the dropdown. The current status is displayed in the trigger label.

How to use the classic view on Jira 9

Go to Administration -> Manage apps and select Extensions Configuration

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You can turn on/off this feature and select projects and/or groups where you want (or not) to use the classic view (known from Jira 8)

Jira 9	Classic view

Jira 9	Classic view
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Add more workflow transition buttons to the issue page

When viewing an issue page, most workflow transition buttons are contained within the Workflow dropdown menu. However, some Jira admins may prefer more transition buttons visible on the issue page. 

The ops.bar.group.size.opsbar-classic-transitions-view property in the jira-config.properties file is responsible for defining how many workflow transition buttons are shown on the issue page.

 Keep in mind that this setting is universal across Jira and will require shutting down the instance. As always, we recommend testing changes in a lower environment before attempting them in production.

1. Shutdown Jira. Even on Jira Data Center, it is necessary to shutdown all nodes. A rolling restart of the nodes won't suffice.

2. Edit the jira-config.properties file in your JIRA application home directory.

   •  See Making changes to the jira-config.properties file for more information.

3. Change the value of the ops.bar.group.size.opsbar-classic-transitions-view property within this file to be the number of transition buttons required before the Workflow menu.

   •  If this property does not appear in the jira-config.properties file, add it; otherwise, a default value of 3 will be used.

   • For example, the following could be added to the file to allow for 5 transition buttons to be visible on the page before the Workflow dropdown.

     ops.bar.group.size.opsbar-classic-transitions-view = 5

4. Save the updated jira-config.properties file.

5. Restart JIRA. 

6. Your workflow transition buttons should now be visible on the page.

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