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Is there a way to add different statuses at the project level in Jira Software?

Kristine Gemici

Currently, there are only two options for projects that are not active, "Trash" or "Archive" . We would like to identify/categorize projects that would fall into these categories:

"Held"

"Cancelled"

"Not Started"

"Closed"

Is there a way to do this at the project level?

Accepted answers

Mayur Jadhav_30osel

Hi @Kristine Gemici ,

Welcome

I don't think so that is possible in Jira as it is global functionality so you can't not customized it.

Regards,

Mayur

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, that's not a status or field, it's a functional thing. Trashed projects will be deleted eventually, and archived ones are not indexed. It's not a project status.

Leo Diaz - Deiser

Hi @Kristine Gemici !

I'm Leo Díaz Product Manager of Projectrak (formerly Profields). If I can help you, please let me know!

Projectrak will allow you to add properties like status or priority at project level

This is what Projectrak Cloud looks like:

If the category is not enough, perhaps Projectrak is a more complete solution.

I hope it helps you!

→ Click here to try it

Leo

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Mayur Jadhav_30osel

Hi @Kristine Gemici ,

Welcome

I don't think so that is possible in Jira as it is global functionality so you can't not customized it.

Regards,

Mayur

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No, that's not a status or field, it's a functional thing. Trashed projects will be deleted eventually, and archived ones are not indexed. It's not a project status.

Kristine Gemici

Thanks so much Jadhav for the quick response on this! I am hoping that others might have some ideas if this is not possible... The only other option I can think of is to change the name of the project and include this status at the start of the title so that we could late adjust that but having a category would really be a preference so that we could later run reports for this... Do you know how I could suggest this as an improvement??

-Kristine

Kristine Gemici

Thank you Nic! Is there any way to add an "index" to archived projects??

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The point of archiving is to drop them out of the index - they're not supposed to be actively used!

There is something you could do though - Jira has a simple implementation of a "project category" (it's actually in the screenshot you gave in the question). It's a single project field, so you can't do things like "project is green AND blue at the same time", but you can set up whatever categories you want and group projects into them.

It can also be used in searches - "category = green" will return all issues in all projects that are categorised as "green"

Kristine Gemici

Thank you Nic!! This could definitely be an option ... the other problem is that we currently utilize this to group projects by region.. for example : NALA, EAME, APAC , etc... Is there a way to add additional columns for categories... I can see the benefit/need to have multiple columns in the project view that would allow for different ways to group projects... (kind of like what you can do in a spreadsheet)... we could really use this for marking projects with a certain status like "green" , "red" , "orange"....