Tasks - more Progress Status Types

It will be great if you add task statuses different than 'in progress' and 'closed' i.e. we are software company that have different workflow:
'not started', 'in progress', 'done', 'for testing', 'competed', 'archived'

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Sudheer YVN shared this idea · June 09, 2014 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · February 26, 2020

Hi All,

I updated the concept and published http://bit.ly/2uvRsKy

Please feel free to join FB community and post your feedback here or on FB – here is a direct link – http://bit.ly/38ZfmNG

Cheers,
Igor

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planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · March 25, 2018

Hi All,

I updated the concept and published https://freedcamp.com/Freedcamp_LxR/Freedcamp_Devel_yOf/wiki/wiki_public/view/d0hab

Please feel free to join FB community and post your feedback here or on FB – here is a direct link – https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedcamp/permalink/841454019654582/

Cheers,
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · March 13, 2018

Hi All,

We think that each task can be only in progress, not in progress or completed but true – not in progress task can have a clarification sub-status like ‘waiting for a feedback’ or ‘postponed’ and we do consider adding sub-statuses in the future. Things like ‘Testing’, ‘Review’ – task lists can be used to handle. A task in ‘Testing’ task list will still be in progress, not started or completed because if you set it as status you will never know if actual testing phase not started, in progress or completed. To handle this in Kanban view we plan to allow to switch Kanban view to show columns as task lists in addition to by status available now. Hope it helps what is planned and what to expect.

Summary:
- add substatuses (allow to edit them)
- Kanban columns either per status+sub-status or task list

Please email your Freedcamp account email if you want to be invited to internal Freedcamp discussion to define a roadmap for this feature in Freedcamp and work with the Freedcamp team.

Cheers,
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · March 11, 2018

Hi All,

We think that each task can be only in progress, not in progress or completed but true – not in progress task can have a clarification sub-status like ‘waiting for a feedback’ or ‘postponed’ and we do consider adding sub-statuses in the future. Things like Testing, Review – task lists can be used to handle. A task in Testing list will still be in progress, not started or completed because if you set it as status you will never know if actual testing phase not started, in progress or completed. To handle this in Kanban view we plan to allow to switch Kanban view to show columns as task lists in addition to by status available now. Hope it helps what is planned and what to expect.

Cheers,
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · July 13, 2017

Hi All,

Just an update that we start work on Custom Fields feature which can workaround more statuses problem until this is fully supported.

You will be able to create custom field ’Substatus", for example, add new statuses to it and set it on your task and use filters we already have to filter by substatus.

You will not see more than 3 columns in Kanban view with this approach.

Cheers,
Igor

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · February 14, 2017

Hi All,

Just an update that we start work on Custom Fields feature which can workaround more statuses problem until this is fully supported.

You will be able to create custom field ’Substatus", for example, add new statuses to it and set it on your task and use filters we already have to filter by substatus.

It will however not change your ability to see more than 3 columns in Kanban view.

Cheers,
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · August 12, 2016

Hi All,

If we add separate statuses – we will have to redo a LOT – Kanban to support 6-8 columns, List view etc etc.

What if we will do the same UserVoice does – https://www.dropbox.com/s/4dtvporv9mlvgu9/multiple%20statuses.png?dl=0
we will keep 3 statuses – No Progress, Doing, Done and allow you guys to create 2-5 sub-statuses.

No Progress (category not selectable)
—In Planning
—In Review
—Ready to start

Doing (category not selectable)
—In Progress
—Delayed
—Blocked
—Pending

Done (category not selectable)
—Cancelled
—Duplicate
—Completed
—In Review

So we stay in 3 main statuses but give you options to decide if ‘Delayed; is in ’Doing’ category for you or in ‘No Progress’.

As we want to keep things simple – this will be Task Status extension which you will have to add from Marketplace to all or some projects in your account.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Igor

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · July 20, 2016

Hi All,

If we add separate statuses – we will have to redo a LOT – Kanban to support 6-8 columns, List view etc etc.

No Progress
In Planning
In Review
Ready to start

Doing
In Progress
Delayed
Blocked
Pending

Done
Cancelled
Duplicate
Completed
In Review

So we stay in 3 main statuses but give you options to decide if ‘Delayed; is in ’Doing’ category for you or in ‘No Progress’.

As we want to keep things simple – this will be Task Status extension which you will have to add from Marketplace to all or some projects in your account.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Igor

under review ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · November 11, 2015

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone!

NEW UPDATE

After having a Skype conversation with Dan I decided to update status here:

— if we will find a sponsor for this particular feature set – we will add ‘Custom status’ module which will allow to add extra 5 statuses and have up to 8 column in Kanban.

— if we will not find a sponsor we will most likely keep 3 main statuses and allow extra sub-statuses to be added with options to filter by status and sub-status. This is because it will take much less time and will not require to fix upcoming iPhone app.

Cheers,
Igor

OLD UPDATE

As you know we also have Kanban view in Freedcamp and we would really like to keep it 3 columns (unlike Trello where you can create 20 columns naming each with a different status).

What will you say if we will keep 3 statuses as now

No Progress
In Progress
Completed

and allow you to add sub-statuses

No Progress/Delayed
No Progress/On Hold
In Progress/Testing
In Progress/Pending Response
Completed/Duplicate
Completed/Cancelled

What do you think about this?

Cheers,
Igor

under review ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · October 19, 2015

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone!

As you know we also have Kanban view in Freedcamp and we would really like to keep it 3 columns (unlike Trello where you can create 20 columns naming each with a different status).

What will you say if we will keep 3 statuses as now

No Progress
In Progress
Completed

and allow you to add sub-statuses

No Progress/Delayed
No Progress/On Hold
In Progress/Testing
In Progress/Pending Response
Completed/Duplicate
Completed/Cancelled

What do you think about this?

Cheers,
Igor

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · August 07, 2020 06:15 · Flag as inappropriate

Sorry, I have no updates. At the moment all the team is busy switching our interfaces to React modern-micro-interactive UI.

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D Mays commented · August 03, 2020 09:32 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Igor, any progress on implementing custom status columns in Freedcamp?

I definitely would use this, as our current workflow relies upon the following statuses:

"no status / inbox, high priority, next actions, in progress, blocked, done, nope"

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Frank Labitzke commented · July 31, 2020 04:07 · Flag as inappropriate

Just started with freedcamp and like it much - but: I urgently miss the ability to define more task statusses, like: Idea, Planning, ....

Thanks
Frank

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Daniel commented · July 19, 2020 22:23 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello

I really like the product and this the the missing feature to start using it.
There is any update about the timeline ?

Thanks

Daniel

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Charles Sprickman commented · July 07, 2020 15:17 · Flag as inappropriate

+1

All I need for this to be perfect for me and a collaborator is something between "in progress" and "completed", like "in review".

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Jasper Turcotte commented · June 12, 2020 04:18 · Flag as inappropriate

My company was trying this out, and within 10-15 minutes of my dabbling with it, I was poking around trying to figure out how to add more states. It was an immediate issue.

At minimum, an "On Hold" state would be desirable.

The plan seems to treat this as little more than a percentage-complete indicator. Each state may just be replaced by "0%, 10%, 20%". It doesn't allow for the possibility or concept of tangential scenarios.

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Ed commented · June 05, 2020 19:07 · Flag as inappropriate

Hey Igor - any updates on this? I love the platform, and this is the one big thing that it's missing.

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Pieter Derdeyn commented · April 28, 2020 14:33 · Flag as inappropriate

This is currently the deal breaker for me for adopting this product for my organization. I would like the ability to track jobs going through a pipeline with multiple intermediate statuses between ToDo and Done

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duran goodyear commented · April 07, 2020 15:49 · Flag as inappropriate

I would like to be able to customize the columns in the kanban board.
The "planned" comment listed by Igor looks perfect.

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Greg commented · March 23, 2020 07:35 · Flag as inappropriate

Honestly so far this is the deal breaker for me that keeps me at Trello.

I'd even prefer to just switch the current view, so that the Lists are horizontal and the Statuses are vertical. Maybe just a different view.

That way anyone who likes it the way it is could keep the Kanban view with the Statuses running horizontal, and those of us who need more could just switch the view and use the lists instead. Frankly I'd almost prefer this - having Lists running horizontally in columns where each list has sortable statuses, so I could have the "In progress" tasks at the top, the "no progress" tasks in the middle, and the "completed" tasks out of view at the bottom.

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TJ commented · March 04, 2020 13:27 · Flag as inappropriate

Yes. This is important. Need to be done, doing and done are too broad. Look at Trello- https://trello.com/b/yaWmcfmG/sample-content-calendar... Sometimes it can be more than no, yes, done

By the way, <rant>I do not have a Facebook account and don't want one. Could you provide the info shared on that site to a page only logged in users can see on your own site? Zuckerburg et al have been playing fast and loose with user data and now wants government intervention to bring in regulation in/on the web. Forget him and Facebook. Put the data on your own site. I paid for it. Why should I have to go to an external site? </rant>

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Anonymous commented · January 27, 2020 04:35 · Flag as inappropriate

I have seen in many roadmaps done in trello things like to complete in this month, in 3-6 months, 1 year

The ability to establish new columns is very useful and definitively is important for many users.

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Anonymous commented · January 05, 2020 12:25 · Flag as inappropriate

Definitely agree that the need to edit/create new when it comes to task status is important. From a PM perspective, each project is different, and if the ability to create custom statuses was added, it would expand the usability of Freedcamp.

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Slayton commented · January 05, 2020 12:24 · Flag as inappropriate

Its baffling why this hasnt been at least slightly changed. I can see that needing to be able to switch between 3 different views/styles restricts some of the variability. But upping the status to some larger set number say 5/8 and then allowing those fields to be customized, would that really break the system?

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Khalid commented · December 02, 2019 03:13 · Flag as inappropriate

I sent a question to the support but didn't get any feedback. I guess it's my fault cause I didn't check here first...
But yeah I agree with all other opinions. Would really love to have more flexibility to implement the kanban view we want. Used Trello, Asana (and even in Github) and we alway had the freedom to define the columns.

I love Freedcamp so far, but for now I'm the only one testing it. And I think it will be really difficult to convince my team or my customers to use it.

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · November 25, 2019 03:05 · Flag as inappropriate

This is a discussion - opinions exchange. Any vendor can be considered enforcing own reasoning to users, even Apple with the 1st iPhone.

Please provide your reasoning as a new comment and I will reply to you in comments.

> Thanks @David – I will revise and update status this or next week.

I did not have time to do so because we were busy with other matters here but I haven't forgotten about it.

I will also make sure we will share version 1 plan with all users contributed here and in the Facebook community group before we actually start implementing it. I am not sure if you experienced such an approach with other vendors. I personally, did not.

Thank you
Igor

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Anonymous commented · November 25, 2019 00:52 · Flag as inappropriate

I can't believe the ignorant attitude towards users. Quite dissapointed. Too bad, but enforcing your own reasoning onto users' workflow is a "no go" for me.

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Anonymous commented · November 25, 2019 00:05 · Flag as inappropriate

Have been scratching my head for half an hour not even thinking that it's not possible by default. Looked through help for solution. Unfortunately lack of this makes Freedcamp unusable for me. Too bad.

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Andreas commented · October 31, 2019 04:32 · Flag as inappropriate

I have tried most similar tools, and pretty much all of them have the option to set custom Kanban columns / statuses.

As a new user, this was one of the first things I wanted to Edit, and I could not figure out how to do it or if it was possible at all.

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · October 30, 2019 04:19 · Flag as inappropriate

Thanks @David - I will revise and update status this or next week. I will make it a public Wiki or a Google Doc with permission for anyone with the link to comment.

Re: Kanban - there is no difference between now and if we will also allow setting Kanban columns to be Task Lists. Right now https://blog.freedcamp.com/2016/04/27/how-advanced-subtsasks-work-in-kanban-view/

If Kanban columns will be task lists and you move subtask from task list A to B it will become a task in task list B (column)

The only way to do it properly is to design a 'flat view' where subtasks are clearly marked but they are not showing as hierarchies, I think.

Cheers,
Igor

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