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Different Status' for different Work Packages

Added by Rihan Ahmed 11 days ago

I am sure this may be a common question. I am using the community edition of OpenProject. I managed to create new Work pckage types based on my requirements. I also created new Status types. What I need to be able to do is assign different status types to different Work Package types


Ex. 

Work Package type 1

Status A; Status B and Status C


Work Package Type 2

Status P; Status Q and Status R


I cannot find any way of mapping different status types to specific Work package types. Can anyone help me achieve this outcome?



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RE: Different Status' for different Work Packages - Added by Alexander Stock 5 days ago

Hi Rihan,

sure! Status options are not only tied to work package types but to roles as well. So you define which role (project member, admin, reader etc..) can select which status using a certain work package type.

Examples:

You could allow only project admins to close work packages of type Phase. 
Or your QA team is only allowed to chose the status options testing, successful test or test failed for a Product work package, and once they selected one of the latter, they cannot switch back.

To do this, you first need to create new status options (which you already did) and then define the workflows for each role and work package type.
This can be done via Administration -> Work packages -> Workflow.

There is a recently published blog post available regarding this topic. It also includes a visual step-by-step guide which I can recommend:

https://www.openproject.org/blog/status-and-workflows/

Best,

Alexander

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