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How to change the possible project status ?

Added by Benoit PETIT-DEMOULIERE over 5 years ago

Hello,

i managed to install a fresh copy on ubuntu 18.04. It's working well and i really appreciate what i'm discovering.

One thing i did not find still is the place where i can change the item for project status : OFF track, ON track ..

I did not find a way to change these items. 

Any clue ?

thanks


Replies (10)

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Oliver Günther over 5 years ago

Hello Benoit,

the status values themselves are fixed to the three traffic light ones (+ one undefined state) , however you can use the status description to customize the status.

Best

Oliver

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Benoit PETIT-DEMOULIERE over 5 years ago

Hi, 

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't get the idea behind that fixed field. 

It would be great to allow to edit  that list with more precise status. 

How to mention that a whole project is on hold, canceled, archived, finished?

I don't catch the logic behind this field..

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Lars Tiedemann about 5 years ago

+1 for custom project status values. 

Could this be implemented via "Enumerations"?

RE: RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Benoit PETIT-DEMOULIERE about 5 years ago

Hello.

I'm currently trying to mvoe our company to openproject as we have some time to work on our tool during the COVID shutdown.

Where can I make a request for this possible change ? 

I'd like to have an Admin access to this field, to define differente potential status that would fit our activity.

Thanks a lot !

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Jonatas Prust about 5 years ago

+1 for custom project status values.

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Magdalena Rybak over 4 years ago

+1 for custom project status values.

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Johan Bouduin over 4 years ago

Somehow I don't get it: for me there is a real difference between

  • the traffic light status (as currently implemented): which is a sort of ad-hoc reporting status
  • status values 'planned', 'cleared', 'initiated', 'running', ... 'closed' and whatever you can think of which are progress status values.

Why not use custom fields for storing progress status values?

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Benoit PETIT-DEMOULIERE over 4 years ago

I'd prefer to use the status as there is a widget dedicated for that and that specific field is called easily, instead of custom field.

I like the red/orange/green sign, but not the text attached to that.

as it's hardcoded, I could just modify the text in the source code, but that seems counterproductive..

RE: RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Markus Peppmeier over 4 years ago

+1 for custom project values

RE: How to change the possible project status ? - Added by Max Mutzge over 4 years ago

Dear all, 

We have a two feature requests for this here: #34708  and #34079 

Please check to see if one of these matches your requirements. Feel free to add a comment if anything is missing.

Kind regards,
Matthias

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