Can't Add Category to Board Without Status. Can't Add Status Without Category

soriyo

I added a category and status to my board a couple of years ago and subsequently deleted it. I now want to add another.and can't figure out how to do it. Has something changed?

On the manage board page, I can add a category/column. When I do, I get a warning flag saying I need to add a status to it. There are no unassigned statuses in the view and can't complete the add without assigning one.

I have selected Issues and then Statuses to add additional statuses. There, I'm forced to assign it to the category, IIFC, Open, In Progress, or Done. Since I have other categories on the board this may be reuse of the term category to mean something else. I've also added a category to the project. It seems to be unrealated to the board so maybe a third use of category.

It's a kanban project using the classic workflow. I add the statuses to the workflow as well.

I have a free account if that is a limiting factor.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Ok, there's a confusing word in use here, so I want to explain it before we go further.  

The word "category" has two meanings in Jira and they should come out as

Project category:  a way to group projects together, the list defined by you

Status category: a kind of meta-status, gathering your actual status into To-do, In-progress and Done.

I'm pretty sure you mean status category here.

You start by saying "add a category to a board" - that cannot be done.  Boards are made up of columns that you define, and you then map various status into them. 

When you create a new board, it will default to three columns, to-do, in-progress and done, and mapping the status it finds in your workflows based on their current status category.  You can change that, adding, removing or rearranging columns, and mapping any status into any column.

So, I would step back from the category.  Ignore it for now and just look at your columns and what status you map into them.  The category has no relevance here, other than defining a default and changing the colour of the status so you can easily see where a status should probably go (the usual logical mapping expected is anything in the to-do category to go into the left-most column, all the "done" status in the last column, and all the in-progress across all the columns in the middle)