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 →

started ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · April 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.

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started ·

AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) responded · March 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 · 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

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

planned ·

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

planned ·

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

planned ·

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

planned ·

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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Ernesto Flames commented · June 20, 2018 19:54 · Flag as inappropriate

Yes please, more kanban columns!... For example, in my job we are using this structure:

- Backlog (to store all epics and ideas) only the project admin can edit them
- To do (Freedcamp not in progress column)
- In progress (Freedcamp in progress column)
- UAT - Task done but waiting for user testing or waiting for approval
- Ready for PRD - Accepted by user and waiting for implementation
- Done - Task has been implemented in production.

Yes, too many but we are a large development team, would be a nice improve of Freedcamp man!!.. hehe and sorry for my english by the way.

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Jim Bob commented · May 06, 2018 16:20 · Flag as inappropriate

Would like to know when this planned feature is in because it's the only thing stopping me from using Freed Camp, Ora.pm has the best Kaban board out there, learn from them.

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · April 10, 2018 18:38 · Flag as inappropriate

@Mike - all 3 main statuses will have custom sub-statuses. Right now you can use Custom Fields and add extra d/down "Sub-status":
No Progress - Planned
No Progress - Waiting for Approval
No Progress - Delayed
In Progress - Testing
In Progress - Review
Completed - Declined
etc.

Custom Fields, once used, are exposed to filters so you can easily use them to create your most needed filters and switch contexts quickly.

See here for details - https://freedcamp.com/Freedcamp_LxR/Freedcamp_Devel_yOf/wiki/wiki_public/view/3Tbab
It is part of Freedcamp Business

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MikeM commented · April 10, 2018 13:35 · Flag as inappropriate

I frankly agree w/ the Freedcamp position that the three states are sufficient *if* (and only if) those states can have substates. Being able to sort/filter at the two levels seems very valuable to me.

Note that even "Completed" needs possible substates... for example, I have tasks that are decided against (never completed, or perhaps even started) due to changing environment. I don't want to delete them for historical reasons, but marking them Complete is not right either. I'd like a Completed substate of "Abandoned" or similar.

PS: I'm currently on free... keep planning to upgrade to paid plan but have never pulled the trigger... this change would definitely push me into action :-)

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · March 25, 2018 05:10 · Flag as inappropriate

@Daniel,

Do you agree with an action plan provided in the latest status update? Are you planning to go with one of our premium plans or only interested in the free plan? You can contact me help@freedcamp.com.

Cheers,
Igor

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Daniel commented · March 22, 2018 06:32 · Flag as inappropriate

So this has been in the pipeline for nearly 4 years now? This is the only feature I'm waiting for to bring my team onboard. I'm assuming it's not happening anytime soon?

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Grzegorz commented · March 14, 2018 12:46 · Flag as inappropriate

That one thing - lack of statuses want me to make my own Task management for my needs... Freedcamp lacks alot for my management needs, but is enough if I use it as task management... if not those statuses. It would be real life saver!

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · January 09, 2018 01:34 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,

Why in this case 5 task lists with the following names won't work?

Backlog
Analysis
Development
Deployment

You move your tasks from Backlog where all tasks are always not in progress status to Analysis task list, assign and start it. When a task in Analysis is completed you push them to Development task list etc.

You can also add Custom Field 'Stage' as a drop down and have all your tasks having one of these attributes attached:
Backlog
Analysis
Development
Deployment

if you are on Business Plan.

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Anonymous commented · January 08, 2018 06:03 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Feedback squad; no this isn't what I meant.

You would essentially define your own values for a picklist of progress stages; e.g/:

Default (at present) for any task is:
1.Not Started
2. In Progress
3. Completed

But I could instead define stages as:

1. Backlog
2. Analysis started
3. Analysis complete
4. Development started
5. Development complete
6. Testing started
7. Testing complete
8. Deployment Ready
9. Deployed

So my apologies maybe not max 7; but hopefully you get my drift....

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · January 05, 2018 18:45 · Flag as inappropriate

I assume each of 7 statuses will have a binary attribute attached (in progress, not in progress) and order of these statuses needs to be defined as well by you.

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Anonymous commented · January 04, 2018 03:46 · Flag as inappropriate

IMO:

Every business has different language for stages of dev/non-dev project stages.

The best possible solution would be allowing a custom set of statuses to be defined (up to say max 7); then allowing users to move tasks/items through thier kanban dependent on the order of their custom statuses.

This would allow any business to use freedcamp without having to translate other existing processes/procedures - huge stepforward in the platform's key functionality.

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Anonymous commented · January 02, 2018 14:02 · Flag as inappropriate

I just went through the painful process of moving a portion of my company's projects over to this platform. I've just now realized this will not work for our teams due to the lack of options with regard to statuses for the "kanban" view. It looks like this was being planned about 6 months ago... Is there any update or timeline for this improvement?... It's a deal-breaker without it.

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mmosolution.com team: Jean commented · December 26, 2017 20:11 · Flag as inappropriate

Otherwise as others say, it's back to good old Trello, which is improving in leaps and bounds. Come on, FreedCamp!!

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mmosolution.com team: Jean commented · December 26, 2017 20:10 · Flag as inappropriate

It's now almost 2018.. WHEN will we have ability to add more statuses to Tasks PLEASE?? Desperately needed for Kanban view!

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M commented · December 06, 2017 12:47 · Flag as inappropriate

When will the additional status options be fully supported?

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Anonymous commented · December 05, 2017 12:00 · Flag as inappropriate

This is needed. Few projects of mine have a simple to-do, in progress and done. I need to be able to create my own. This and moving task between projects is the only thing keeping me from paid subscription.

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Charis commented · November 10, 2017 03:40 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,

Personally I think it would be very useful to have an extra column in Kanban view for an 'Awaiting Feedback' status.

We often have tasks that are awaiting updates from clients, and it would be much easier for the workflow to have a column for tasks that we know are in progress, but that we don't have to focus on immediately.

Regards,
Charis

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Benoît commented · August 28, 2017 01:56 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,

Without talking about Custom Fields feature (who is very interesting and i understand that it's a "priced" feature.

Adding just "pending" in free could be very useful and less frustrating than just have "in progress" status for tasks.

regards,

Benoît

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AdminFreedcamp (Feedback Squad, Freedcamp) commented · August 22, 2017 22:31 · Flag as inappropriate

@Megan - using Custom Fields as a substatus will not add extra columns to Kanban view, sorry about it.

We need to add
- more statuses and support multi-column Trello like Kanban
OR
- more substatuses and keep Kanban with three columns, but expose substatus to be visible as labels on tasks.

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Megan commented · August 22, 2017 14:07 · Flag as inappropriate

I can't figure out how to set up substatus since it's not an included field - is this just making a dropdown, or is it a way to integrate it into the actual progress situation (so in Kanban, it can still be under "in progress," but for task or whatever we can see it as "in review" or "needs edits" or something.

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