Creating a custom category

[Ketan Shah]

Is it possible to create a custom category?  I know that the system comes out of the box with "To Do," "In Progress," and "Done"

Is it possible to create a category of my choosing?  

[Mikael Sandberg]

The short answer is no, that list is fixed.

[Ketan Shah]

Thank you Mikael.  Appreciate your response. 

[Francisco Mingote]

Hi Mikael, Do you know when are you adding the option to add new Categories? 

Thanks

[Mikael Sandberg]

@Francisco Mingote I do not work for Atlassian, I am just a user of their tools. I did find this request, JRASERVER-63384, and it looks like it will not happen.

We have decided to close this specific request for additional status categories as Won't Fix. The finite set of status categories allows us to build useful features on top of them, like completion progress indicators for Epics and Versions.

[Francisco Mingote]

@Mikael Sandberg thanks a lot to share the final resolution. 

[Jack Brickey]

Maybe I am missing the point here. Not sure what you mean by "category" but "To Do", "In Progress" and "Done" are statuses and you certainly have the ability to create additional statuses via defining workflows.

[Mikael Sandberg]

My reply was in regards to the Status Categories "To Do", "In Progress" and "Done".

[Ketan Shah]

Sorry - Correct Mikael.  That is what I was referring to as well.  

[Jack Brickey]

got it! now i'm aligned. :-)