Statuses (sometimes known as columns or lists) represent the workflow that cards go through in a board to be completed.

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Status properties

Each status has three properties:

  • Status name – a short descriptive name (To do, In progress, In review, Deployed, etc)
  • Status type – the status must be set to one of five possible types:
    • Backlog – uncommitted work.
    • Not started – work that has been committed to, but has not started yet.
    • In progress – work that has been started. You might have several ‘In progress’ states in your workflow.
    • Done – work that has been completed.
    • Cancelled – work that has been abandoned.
  • Status colour – the colour of the status icon that will be displayed throughout the app. This is useful if you have several ‘In progress’ states that you want to use different colours for.

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Status types

Every status in Superthread must have a ‘type’. This is used to show progress on tasks (e.g. “5 out of 10 of the cards are finished”). It also lets you set up views which contain all cards with a status of a certain type, regardless of what the status is named.

When moving a card to a different board, or creating a card via email, the first status in the board will be used as the default location for the card.

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Managing statuses

New boards will already have some statuses created by default, but you can:

  • Re-order them
  • Rename them
  • Add new ones
  • Delete them

Statuses should represent the workflow that cards go through to be completed.

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Subscribe to a status

You can be notified when a new card is created in, or moved into a specific status such as ‘Done’. Hover over the status name and click the 3 dot menu. Then select subscribe.