Top Menu

Jump to content
Home
    Modules
      • Projects
      • Activity
      • Work packages
      • Gantt charts
      • Calendars
      • Team planners
      • Boards
      • News
    • Getting started
    • Introduction video
      Welcome to OpenProject Community
      Get a quick overview of project management and team collaboration with OpenProject. You can restart this video from the help menu.

    • Help and support
    • Upgrade to Enterprise edition
    • User guides
    • Videos
    • Shortcuts
    • Community forum
    • Enterprise support

    • Additional resources
    • Data privacy and security policy
    • Digital accessibility (DE)
    • OpenProject website
    • Security alerts / Newsletter
    • OpenProject blog
    • Release notes
    • Report a bug
    • Development roadmap
    • Add and edit translations
    • API documentation
  • Sign in
      Forgot your password?

      or sign in with your existing account

      OpenProject ID Google

Side Menu

  • Overview
  • Activity
    Activity
  • Roadmap
  • Work packages
    Work packages
  • Gantt charts
    Gantt charts
  • Calendars
    Calendars
  • Team planners
    Team planners
  • Boards
    Boards
  • News
  • Forums

Content

Updated by Jens Ulferts almost 6 years ago

### Acceptance criteria

* Project status is an attribute of project
* The available status can be changed in Administration -> Enumerations -> Project status
* Each status can be assigned to a color, e.g.
* On hold: grey
* Green: green
* Red: red
* Amber: amber
* Project approval pending: white
* Not started: white
* …
* There is a status summary text field
* Each change is journalized
* Status
* Status summary
* Inplace editing: no need to switch to the project administration

### Notes

* Journalize projects which is currently not done at all. Only direct project attributes, e.g. name, identifier, status, status summary and description are journalized. all
* Requires the projects api to also have an update, schema and form end point (#18809)
* Add status & status summary to the projects API (representation/update/create/forms/schema).
* Add a project status index and show end point to the API.
* Open: How is the large number of status mapped to the traffic light representation which has a position as well as a color? Suggestion: Do not use a traffic light and only display the color.
* Open: Is the status also displayed on the project list table? As a text area field, the summary text is not fit to be displayed in the table.   
* Open: Are only the direct project attributes, e.g. name, identifier, status, status summary and description journalized or should information like memberships also be part of it?
* Open:
How and where is the project history displayed?
* Open: What is displayed, when the user clicks on "History"?
* Open: Are the fields also editable on the project administration page?
* Suggestion: Find a different place for the status administration as that enumerations page covers a number of totally unrelated topics. topics. 

### Widget example

![](/api/v3/attachments/15898/content)

Back

Loading...