duplicate statuses under sprint - how can I merge?

Question

Hi,

We are trying to clear up our sprint process but have noticed multiple status' with the same name. Does anyone know how i can merge these and what is causing this?

statuses that are duplicating:

- DONE (3 dupes)

755 issues in 1, 187 in 1, 2 in 1, 1 in 1

- TO DO (1 dupe)

304 issues in 1, 13 in another

- IN REVIEW (2 dupe)

1 issue in 1, 0 in the other

Thanks,

Matt Parks_sejswu · Answer

In my opinion, the ability to create different artifacts with the same name should not be allowed in the tool. Whether it's status, custom fields, or anything else, the amount of confusion will almost always greatly outweigh the "benefit" of having duplicate names.

But I guess Atlassian decided to leave that up to the admins.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I suspect your board's filter includes a range of projects, some of which are team-managed.  You can duplicate status names in team-managed projects, so I think your multiple done/to-do/in-review are coming from the different projects.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Cloud's team-managed projects allow you to create project-local status with the same name as global ones.

This is one of the reasons I tell people that team-managed projects are not yet useful for enterprise users.