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'

Custom Statuses for tasks – beta testing is open now.
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Please check documentation – https://freedcamp.com/Freedcamp_LxR/Freedcamp_Devel_yOf/wiki/wiki_public/view/Espab after getting access especially if you will be applying custom statuses to your existing projects.
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Edward Apostol commented
Is there anything that is going to be done about kanban board customization? This thread has been around since 2016. three years.
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Josh commented
I can understand the idea that Testing might be a task (subtask) and not a status. But there's a world of difference between No Progress and Blocked (No Progress Possible). It seems like adding Blocked is a lot simpler than adding task dependencies.
Any chance there's an update on this?
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yannick armspach commented
'we plan to allow to switch Kanban view to show columns as task lists' always under develeopement ?
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Dustin Bauman commented
It would be great to be able to modify the status, like Review, Pending or others.
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Anonymous commented
What’s the latest?
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Anonymous commented
Can you share the status? it will really help to have this
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AJ commented
Looking for an update on this feature, we need to have control of the Kanban naming of columns, everyone has a different workflow and different internal systems, Freedcamp needs to understand and adapt to workflows, not the other way around. Thank you.
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Jay87 commented
Any update on implementation?
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Jay87 commented
This is such a simple, yet major decision changing feature.
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Anonymous commented
any progress on this?
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Jonathan commented
Even if this sounds minimal or arbitrary to Igor and Freedcamp, I cannot persuade my team to use this software until given full control of columns/statuses/lists/Kanban or whatever you want to call them. I don't think "sub-statuses" will cut it either.
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Anonymous commented
Yes - I am desperately waiting for this.... I have even started looking at other solutions.
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@Diamond - semantically 'yes' it is either in progress, not in progress or completed. In progress status can be 'Testing', no progress status can be 'On Hold' or 'Blocked'.
Kanban columns are not equal to task statuses. We have this posting here really about two different things
- I want to call my statuses to give them different names such as 'Testing', 'On Hold' or 'Blocked'. If you want to create a new status you will need to tell the system if Testing is one of - doing, not doing or done so Freedcamp knows when you will want to see all tasks 'doing' to be filtered and for many other things
- I want more Kanban columns - the obvious solution here is to allow to define what Kanban columns are (task lists, people, statuses or priorities). If you create task list 'Test' and set your Kanban to use task lists as columns you will see column 'Test'.
I personally (igor[]free..[]com) think that 'Test' is not a status. It can be a task list or a tag. 'Test' semantically does not tell you if it is ready for testing, in testing or completed testing, so cannot act as a status but with the first bullet point - sure you can set it as a status if you want, but will have to define if it status semantically tied to not doing, doing or done.
So no - we do not want to tell anyone what to do. Two bullet points I outlined provide enough room for you to create as many Kanban columns but do even more - set columns to be task lists and group by a person, priority, due date (currently Kanban is always statuses for columns and task lists for grouping).
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Diamond commented
"We think that each task can be only in progress..."??? Seriously??? You're going to tell me how I should organize my projects?!? How about: "the customer wants". I want the ability to create as many customizable Kanban columns as I think is needed for my project. Until this happens, I'll continue to use Asana.
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Anonymous commented
Hi! When will this be moved to a development stage? As a work around, I created various lists so when a task is completed, I move it to the new list to complete the workflow.
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Jean commented
With this feature, I'd order 100 business licences ! :)
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Sherin Sudarsanan commented
Perfect, This Feature along with the simple design and easy to understand flow, would make Freedcamp the Best. Very Nice to hear this. Customizable task status' are really useful in today's agile world.
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eri commented
kanban with 3 unchangeable columns is really not a kanban. It must be adjustable based on user needs
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benjy rose commented
Customizable project statuses would be an extremely useful feature. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the desire to keep Statuses as No Progress / In Progress / Completed seems arbitrary, even if substatuses are allowed.
If we're thinking about extending this, then it would make much more sense to make it completely flexible and allow an infinite number of statuses which could be used as Kanban columns or Task List groupings (swim lanes).
Start with the current three statuses as defaults, but make it extensible. That's my vote.
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David Jorjani commented
Hi, What's the ETA on this feature? We can't work without it anymore and really need it to be able to stay with Freedcamp.
Thanks