While a common transition is a great way to share transitions in a workflow and reduce the amount of management work that would otherwise be required, it has the limitation of having to manually create the transitions between the various statuses.

As your workflow starts becoming more complicated, explicitly creating the transitions becomes a tedious job; this is where global transitions come in.

A global transition is similar to a common transition in the sense that they both share the property of having a single destination status. The difference between the two is that the global transition is a single transition that is available to all the statuses in a workflow.

In this recipe, we will look at how to use global transitions so that issues can be transitioned to the Frozen status from any status throughout the workflow.