Defining custom transitionsTransitions are links at the bottom of cards that let you perform an action on that card.
Transitions provide a shortcut for completing common actions in Mingle, such as closing a bug or marking a user story as complete. As its name suggests, use transitions to move cards from one status to another.
You can use transitions on individual cards, or using Mingle's List view, apply transitions in bulk to a group of cards. Before you can see a transition link on an individual card, it must have all the card property values defined in the transition. Before you can apply a transition to a group of cards, at least one of the selected cards must have all the card property values defined in the transition.
Hint: You can define transitions for specific team members. Therefore some transitions may display for some team members and not others.
You can define transitions from the Project admin tab > Card transitions link.
According to the example below, Mingle will display a transition link called Start User Story on all cards that have a card property of Type set to story, and a Status set to new.
When you apply this transition on a card, Mingle will update the card to Status = open.
Following on from the example above, you can see that the card below has card properties Type and Status set to story and new respectively. This meets the qualification for the transition called Start User Story, and you can see the transition link displayed below.
Click the Start User Story link to update the Status to open. This also advances the card version number by one (to v2). Mingle only advances the card version by one, regardless of how many card properties are updated upon clicking a transition.
Notice also that the original transition link disappears because the card no longer meets the conditions for the Start User Story transition. However, the card now meets the conditions for the Complete Story transition, and this link now appears.
In the example below, at least one of the selected cards has a card property of Type = story with a Status = new, because Mingle displays the transition name under the More actions... menu. Select the transition name and click the Go button to apply the transition to the selected card(s).
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