Lack of "In-progress" status / column in Project.

Question

How to add "In Progress" Status / column in project board (and anywhere)?

I have only "To do" and "Done".

Need to see what is actually being done right now (WIP)...

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Actually, it does.  From To-do, you can go to in-progress.  From in-progress, you can go to done.  The diagram it generates might not be clear, but reading through the transitions tells us that you do have a  To-do -> In-Progres -> Done path.

You have extra transitions though - to-do straight to done (not a problem, useful for when you identify that an issue doesn't need any work), Re-open from done (which also makes perfect sense for when you've closed something that turns out to need more work), and in-progress -> in-progress.  I can't give you an obvious and generic reason for adding a transition back to the same status, but there are perfectly good reasons for having them.  You may not need it through, so I'd be tempted to delete that one.

Adam Pro · Answer

I have a huge mess here...I made these relations and don't know what's going on, b/c it still doesn't link three steps in that way: TO DO - IN PROGRESS - DONE.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Go into edit mode on the workflow and click "add transition".  It'll ask you for the start and end point.  Once you've added it and saved it, you'll be able to use it.

In this case you probably want to add To-do -> In progress, and in progress -> done