Reorder system-level and group statuses

Last update: February 7, 2025

Topics:
System Setup and Administration

CREATED FOR:

Admin

As a Workfront administrator, you can change the order of project, task, and issue statuses for everyone in the system or for a single group.

Statuses

NOTE

Reordering the statuses at the system level doesn’t affect the order of statuses within groups.

However, the statuses within a newly created top-level group inherit the order of the system-level statuses. (A new subgroup inherits the order of the statuses in the group one level up.)

You can reorder locked statuses. For information about locked statuses, see Create or edit a status.
Group administrators can also reorder statuses used in their groups. For more information, see Reorder group statuses.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront plan

Any

Adobe Workfront license

New: Standard

or

Current: Plan

Access level configurations

System Administrator

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Default order of statuses

By default, statuses display in the following order:

Project	Task	Issue
Current Dead On Hold Planning Complete Requested Approved Rejected Idea	New In Progress Complete	New In Progress Reopened Awaiting Feedback On Hold Cannot Duplicate Closed Resolved Verified Complete Won't Resolve

Reorder statuses for tasks and projects system wide or for a group

Click the Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon in the upper-left corner, then click Setup .
In the left panel, click Project Preferences > Statuses.
(Conditional) If you are reordering statuses for a group, start typing the name of the group in the box in the upper-right corner, then click the name when it appears.
Above the Statuses list that displays, click the Projects or Tasks tab.
Drag and drop the statuses in the order you want.

The new status order is saved automatically.
To test the new status order, go to a task or project, click the status in the upper-right corner, and make sure the statuses that display are in the order that you configured.

Reorder statuses for issues

Click the Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, then click Setup .
Click Project Preferences > Statuses.
(Conditional) If you are reordering statuses for a group, start typing the name of the group in the box in the upper-right corner, then click the name when it appears.
Click the Issues tab.
(Optional) Select an issue type (Bug Report, Change Order, Issue, or Request).
NOTE
You cannot customize the order of statuses for the Master List.

We recommend that you order of statuses for each issue type the same way. For more information about issue types, see Configure request types.
Drag and drop the statuses in the order you want.

The new status order is saved automatically.
To test the new status order, go to an issue, click the status in the upper-right corner, and make sure the statuses that display are in the order that you configured.