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title: "Exposing transition names based on a given issue status (using Groovy)"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SUPPORT/523174234/Exposing%20transition%20names%20based%20on%20a%20given%20issue%20status%20(using%20Groovy)"
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Many use cases from our customers involve working with issue status(es). However, there might be particular scenarios where a customer might be required to retrieve a **transition name(s)** (*based on an issue's current/previous status).*
## \uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions
Depending on the customer's use case, **two possible scenarios** can be considered:
1. Things get pretty straightforward if the customer would like to get a **currently executed transition name**. You can freely use the `getCurrentTransition().get().name` method + property to get the transition name.
> ℹ️ **Limitation**: the `getCurrentTransition()` method (hence the `getCurrentTransition().get().name` property) only works when used as part of a workflow configuration. **This method will not retrieve any data when used as part of an Event-based action.**
2. The customer wants to retrieve the **transition names associated with the previous and current status**. In this case, a Groovy script that uses some of the standard Jira classes can be used. The code snippet below that can be used for this purpose.
> ℹ️ **Limitation**: as this proposed solution is based on statutes, the returned results won't be unique (meaning a single value) if multiple transitions can lead to the same status.
> ℹ️
> ℹ️ *Additional note below from our L3/dev team:*
> ℹ️
> ℹ️ *Suppose multiple transitions lead to a specific status. In that case, there's no easy way to know which one has been executed: Jira stores that information only in the internal OS_HISTORYSTEP database table, which has no public API.*
```
import com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.ActionDescriptor
import com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.StepDescriptor
def workflow = ComponentAccessor.getWorkflowManager().getWorkflow(issue)
def workflowStatuses = workflow.getLinkedStatusObjects()
def currentStatus
def prevStatus
prevStatus = workflowStatuses.find{item -> item.name == issue.getFieldHistory("status").fromString.last()}
currentStatus = workflowStatuses.find{item -> item.name == issue.getFieldHistory("status").toString.last()}
StepDescriptor stepDescriptor1 = workflow.getLinkedStep(prevStatus)
StepDescriptor stepDescriptor2 = workflow.getLinkedStep(currentStatus)
```
As an example of this second scenario, the capture below shows the output for the script when used as part of an *Email Issue* post-function ([https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/JMWE/pages/461767713](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/JMWE/pages/461767713)) configuration (*Html Body* section).
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