How do I capture date for each Status?

Question

We have the below Status set up for certain Issue Types and ideal if there was a date field captured for each status.  For example, we want to capture the date Opened (got that, Created), date Issue moved into In Progress, Date it moved to On-Hold (if it does), date it moves to Resolved and Date it is Closed.

Open > In Progress > On-Hold > Resolved > Closed

See Updated date, but that doesn't (1) give date Issue moved from one Status to another and (2) may not be accurate if a user updates an issue after it's been closed (rare but does happen).

Thank you!

Renjith Pillai · Answer

And if your aim is to find those issues which was in a particular status during some period, then JQL supports it directly. See http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching#AdvancedSearching-WAS

E.g.: status WAS "Resolved" DURING ("01/01/2010","01/01/2011")

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Add custom fields (date/time of course) for each "entry to status" you need to trap, and then place post-functions in the workflow that will copy "now" into the appropriate fields.  From memory, you'll probably need a custom plugin to do that, but there's a handful in the plugin exchange.

That still won't tell you if the transition is run several times, it'll just store the last time it was done each time.