How do you remove custom statuses

[David Meyenberg]

I was testing custom statuses and created a test one. It now appears in the drop down when selecting custom statuses and I cannot remove it. In Space Settings->Content Statuses I see the option to delete default statuses but not custom ones.

[David Meyenberg · Accepted solution]

The workaround I found was to disable "Create custom statuses" and just add the statuses I needed through the Suggest statuses->"Create a status"

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Nice! Than for posting your workaround!

[Levente Szabo _Midori_]

Confluence page statuses can be done better than what Atlassian offers in Confluence.

I recommend looking at the suite of features in Better Content Archiving for Confluence. It has automatic statuses and much more.

This is a comprehensive article on Confluence page statutes >>
It's a tutorial on what's possible for Confluence page status with pointers on how to continue beyond statuses and create a Confluence content lifecycle management strategy.

Go this way if you prefer a video >>

(Please note that Better Content Archiving is a free/paid, and supported app and I'm part of the team developing it.)

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Hi @David Meyenberg and welcome to the community,

If you go to space settings > content statuses can't you delete it from there? I just created a status and I can delete it:

[David Meyenberg]

It does not appear on that list for me. See pictures below. "custom status" was the test one.

 

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

Hi @David Meyenberg 

If you have added the status from the "Add status" button, then you can't delete it. The good news is that you can restore the default suggestions if:

• Go to space settings > Content statuses
• Create a new status
• Click Restore Defaults

I tried it on my instance and works just fine.

[David Meyenberg]

It did not give me an option to restore defaults. I needed to create a status from that page and then I was able to restore defaults. This only removed the newly created one though. Even when turning off suggested statuses, I still see the custom one. I originally added it while editing a page, see in image below. If you add one this way, are you able to delete it?

[Alex Koxaras -Relational-]

That's strange..

On my instance, the proposed solution worked, perhaps because it was the first one. Then I would only assume that it's part of the suggestion https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-74269