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A status marks where a feedback post is in your workflow, for example Under Review, Planned, or In Progress. Every post has exactly one status, and the statuses you set to show on the roadmap become the columns of the roadmap’s Status view. Managing your statuses is how you shape both your internal workflow and the plan your users see. You manage them in Settings → Statuses.
Statuses are workspace-wide. Adding, renaming, reordering, or deleting one affects every post and, for statuses shown on the roadmap, what your users see on the public roadmap.

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System vs. custom statuses

Four statuses are built in and marked System: Open, Closed, Completed, and Merged. Sleekplan uses them for built-in operations (a new post starts as Open, merging a post sets it to Merged, and so on), so you can rename and recolor them but you cannot delete them. Every other status is yours to add, change, reorder, or remove. The Statuses settings page listing Open, Closed, Completed, and Merged marked System, plus Under Review, Planned, and In Progress marked Roadmap, with the New status button highlighted

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Add a status

1

Open the status form

Go to Settings → Statuses and click New status in the top right.
2

Name it and pick a color

Give the status a short name and choose a color. The color is the dot shown next to the status everywhere it appears, so pick something distinct from your other statuses.The New status dialog with a Name field, a color swatch picker, a Show on roadmap toggle, and a Close user interaction toggle
3

Choose how it behaves

Set the two toggles for the new status:
  • Show on roadmap adds the status as a column on the public roadmap. Leave it off for internal-only stages you do not want users to see.
  • Close user interaction stops new comments and votes on posts with this status, for finished or rejected work. Statuses with this on are labelled Closed in the list.
4

Create it

Click Create. The status is available immediately on every post and, if you enabled it, on the roadmap.

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Reorder statuses

The order of your statuses here sets the order they appear in status pickers, on the feedback board, and as columns on the roadmap. Put them in the sequence a post naturally moves through, for example Under Review, then Planned, then In Progress.
1

Grab the drag handle

Hover a status row to reveal the drag handle on its left.The Statuses list with the Under Review row hovered, its drag handle highlighted, and edit and delete icons showing on the right
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Drag it into place

Drag the row up or down and drop it where you want it. The new order saves on its own and applies to the roadmap right away.

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Edit a status

Click a status name, or the pencil icon that appears when you hover its row, to reopen the same form and change its name, color, or toggles. You can edit system statuses too, you just cannot delete them.

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Delete a status

1

Open the delete confirmation

Hover the status you want to remove and click the trash icon on the right. System statuses have no trash icon because they cannot be deleted.The delete confirmation dialog reading Delete Under Review, warning that posts using this status will fall back to no status and this cannot be undone
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Confirm

Click Delete status. Any posts that were using it fall back to no status (they are not deleted), and the status is removed from the board and roadmap. This cannot be undone, so if posts still need a stage, reassign them first or edit the status instead of deleting it.

The roadmap

Statuses set to show on the roadmap become its Status-view columns.

Create a post

Set a post’s status along with its category, owner, and estimate.

Categories vs. tags vs. statuses

When to use each of the three ways to organize feedback.