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 · Jun 9, 2014 · Report… · Admin →

completed ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · May 31, 2021

Custom Statuses for tasks – beta testing is open now.

To enable it for your account and your projects and users you need to be on our Business or Enterprise plans or their equivalents. Please contact us as shown in the attached picture to help us to process your requests faster.

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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started ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Apr 21, 2021

It is in staff testing mode right now. To release even in the beta we also need to make sure the mobile and Gmail./Oulook integrations also support custom statuses.

started ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Mar 17, 2021

We will share implementation details for those who is interested to learn more and provide feedback early on.

Related to it
- table view with the ability to select columns including custom fields for tasks is in staff testing mode right now
- Kanban view with the ability to select what you want to use as columns – progress statuses, assignees, priorities, or even start/due dates
- flexible grouping – you will be able to group not only by task list but also be assigned to, priority, assigned to, etc. In also includes no grouping option allowing to sort tasks in a project or across projects in a single list. This function will initially be released in the List, Kanban and Table views (with later release on the Gantt view)

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Feb 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

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Mar 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

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Mar 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

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Mar 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

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Jul 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 · Feb 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

planned ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · Aug 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 · Jul 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 · Nov 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 · Oct 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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Edward Apostol commented · August 21, 2019 9:09 PM · Report

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 · August 1, 2019 7:47 AM · Report

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 · June 12, 2019 1:46 AM · Report

'we plan to allow to switch Kanban view to show columns as task lists' always under develeopement ?

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Dustin Bauman commented · June 4, 2019 11:21 AM · Report

It would be great to be able to modify the status, like Review, Pending or others.

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Anonymous commented · May 27, 2019 5:19 AM · Report

What’s the latest?

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Anonymous commented · April 23, 2019 5:15 AM · Report

Can you share the status? it will really help to have this

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AJ commented · April 17, 2019 12:52 PM · Report

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 · April 10, 2019 7:37 AM · Report

Any update on implementation?

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Jay87 commented · April 10, 2019 7:36 AM · Report

This is such a simple, yet major decision changing feature.

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Anonymous commented · March 8, 2019 9:37 AM · Report

any progress on this?

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Jonathan commented · February 28, 2019 1:40 PM · Report

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 · February 26, 2019 8:33 AM · Report

Yes - I am desperately waiting for this.... I have even started looking at other solutions.

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · October 16, 2018 1:39 AM · Report

@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 · October 15, 2018 8:05 AM · Report

"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 · October 9, 2018 7:57 AM · Report

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 · September 5, 2018 2:24 AM · Report

With this feature, I'd order 100 business licences ! :)

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Sherin Sudarsanan commented · August 29, 2018 11:27 PM · Report

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 · August 29, 2018 6:29 AM · Report

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 · August 23, 2018 5:40 AM · Report

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 · July 23, 2018 7:48 AM · Report

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

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