What is the way to add a new category?

[Eugen Samylin]

What is the way to add a new category for a status in my workflow definition for later using in the board view?

(f.i. new column "validation" additionally to "new", "in progress" and "done")

[Daniel Ebers]

Hi,

'To Do', 'In Progress' and 'Done' are status categories. The specific statuses are mapped to one of them.

There was a suggestion to add more categories to statuses which has been closed. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36241 Atlassian won't implement new status categories.

There might be some Apps in Market Place which could probably come close to the requirement.

In case you meant adding a new status to a workflow please have a look at the article "Add new status and steps to Jira server workflows" that will guide you through the process.

To reflect it in a software board (for example Scrum or Kanban) please additionally have a look here.

What I always recommend if the article "Working with workflows" which answers many questions.

Cheers,
Daniel