This section exemplifies how to configure the Approval add-on so that a set of approvers are required to “approve” a specific request for a specific workflow step. In this example, the workflow transition is blocked until all approvers have approved the issue.
1 | Navigate to the Add-Ons Panel within your JIRA installation and click on Approval Administration to manage Approvals. Administration → Add-Ons → Herzum Approval → Approval Administration | Navigational Item within Add-Ons |
| 2 | For each user that is candidate to be an approver click on the Add a New Approval button. |
Approvals Configuration screen |
| 3 | Select the user that is required to be an approver by the users list. |
Approval creation screen |
| 4 | Verify successful approvers configuration |
Approvals Configuration screen |
| 5 | Configure the specific workflow transition to be blocked until the required set of user have approved. |
Approvals Mapping screen |
Based on the configured Approvers, workflow transition, project and issue type, the specific workflow transition is blocked until all the approvers have approved the issue.
1 | Display the issue for whom the pproval ha been configured. |
Issue edit screen |
| 2 | Click on the 'Request Approval' button to send the emails notifying the approval's request to all the required approvers. |
'Request Approval' button |
| 3 | Review the approval's progressing on the approval's progress bar. The workflow transition is not allowed until all required approvers have provided their approval. |
Approval's progress bar |
| 4 | The workflow transition is enabled when all required approvers have provided their approval. |
Enabled workflow transition |
