Multiple statuses with the same name

[Aaron Corbin]

Hello everyone!

I am new to Jira Work Management and trying to understand how statuses work. 

I was trying to filter for all my high priority and highest priority tasks across all workspaces. I created a dashboard with this filter, and when I did that I realized that it seems we have multiple status called 'To do'. Exact same spelling, but it seems that Jira counted these status as separate. I thought they would have been counted as one status. 

Similar thing for In Progress.

Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?

Thanks, 

[John Funk]

Hi Aaron,

That's because they are probably from Team-managed projects. Everything created in those types of projects are independent of all other projects. So if you have 3 Team-managed projects, you could have 3 To Do statues.