How to change the name of the statuses or hide them in our Jira Project

Summary

Learn how to change the name of the statuses or hide them in a Jira Project.

Environment

Jira Cloud

Solution

Yes, you can change the default statuses into another status from:

• Settings > Issues

• Select statuses under Issue attributes and edit the name.

Kindly note the following things when you change the default status:

• The status category ( To Do, In progress, and Done ) will remain the same.

• When you make the changes, it will make the corresponding changes to all the workflows associated with the projects that have this status.

• The workflow also will be updated with the new status.

Now if you want to hide the statuses from the corresponding projects, you could just remove them from the project workflow.

• Please note that you can only remove statuses from inactive workflows. Make a copy of the workflow that will be inactive and then remove the statuses.

• You can then assign it to the project when you're happy with it.

• When you remove a status that has existing issues, then it will need to be moved to another existing status.

Learn more about configuring and editing workflows at Working with workflows.