Can't find where to rename the status back to the original

[Christoph Schaub]

I have projects in JIRA Software and detected, that somewhere in the past I must have, by mistake changed the Status "In Progress" to "HM/MN" Now I try to change it back, but can't find any option where to do it.

Don't bother about the workflow in the attachment as this is just a test project, but represents the wrong "In Progress" 

Can anyone give me a hint where to search to change this ? The workflows are just shown as read-only (but I'm SYSADM).

Thanks

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Christoph,

You should be able to go to Settings > Issues > Statuses and find the HM/MN status there and change the name. 

[Christoph Schaub]

Thanks a lot John. Somehow I could not find that page anymore. However, it showed that I seem to have another Issue now, as the "In Progress" exists as well and I can't replace the HM/MH with it.

But I will invest now some time in Workflow learning and most likely re-create the projects that have the wrong status in them.

[John Funk]

There was probably another status that got created called In Progress. So in your workflow, you should be able to change out the HM/MH one and add the a new status and select In Progress. 

Just disconnect all of the transitions from the HM/MH status - you won't be able to delete it in an active workflow, but you can make it so that no issues can move to it.