Cannot delete a status

Alex Addison

There are a dozen outdated articles about this, but nothing current...

I created a status that I do not want anymore. According to the software, the status would not be available for use once it's been unassigned from a column.

There is no option to delete the status itself, and it still shows up when creating a card.

Anyone know how to deep-six this status forever?

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Alex Addison 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Are you working with a Team Managed project or a Company Managed project? That information is available at the bottom of the navigation panel on the left.

Are you working with a Software project, a Service project, or a Work Management project? If you are working with a Work Management project, navigation options are displayed horizontally across the top. If you are working with a Software or Service project, the navigation options are in a panel on the left.

Removing a status from the column mappings for a board does not make it unavailable as a status for the issues. It just makes it so that issues in that status are not visible on the board.

To make a status unavailable to an issue the status needs to be removed from the Workflow for that issue. You must be careful about doing that because the workflow may apply to more than one issue type. The exact steps for modifying the workflow depend on whether you are working with a Company Managed project or a Team Managed project.

For a Team Managed project, the Project Administrator has permissions to modify the workflows for the project.

For a Company Managed project only Jira Administrators have permission to modify the workflows.