I have the Project administrator permission, yet I am unable to add a status.

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Krisztian Kovacs_rapuo3 · Accepted Answer

Hi @Nikithatwinkle,

it's possible that the workflow is used by other projects as well or perhaps you don't have the Extended project administration permission for this project.

Here is an exert from the documentation:

Gives the project administrator the ability to edit workflows and screens under certain conditions.

* The workflow must not be shared with any other projects, or be a system workflow.
* To add a status, the status must already exist in the JIRA instance i.e. the project admin can't create new statuses or edit existing statuses.
* To delete a status, the status must not be used by any of the project's issues.
* The project admin can create, update or delete transitions, but they can't select or update a screen used by the transition, or edit or view a transition's properties, conditions, validators or post-functions.

* The screen must not be a default system screen.
* The screen must not be shared with any other projects, or used as a transition screen in workflows.
* The project admin can add, remove and rearrange system fields.
* The project admin can add, remove and rearrange existing custom fields, but they cannot create custom fields.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver079/managing-project-permissions-950288428.html

I hope this helps.