Reorder group statuses

Last update: February 7, 2025

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  • Admin

As a group administrator, you can change the order of project, task, and issue statuses for a group you manage.

Statuses

If there are any groups above the group you manage, their administrators can also do this for your group. The same is true for Workfront administrators (for any group).

NOTE
  • A Workfront administrator can reorder the statuses at the system level. This does not 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.)

Access requirements

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

Adobe Workfront planAny
Adobe Workfront license

New: Standard

Or

Current: Plan

Access level configurationsYou must be a group administrator of the group or a 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:

ProjectTaskIssue

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 in a group you manage

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Setup Setup icon .

  2. In the left panel, click Groups, then click the name of the group.

  3. In the left panel, click Statuses.

  4. Above the Statuses list that displays, click the Projects or Tasks tab.

  5. Drag and drop the statuses in the order you want.

    The new status order is saved automatically.

  6. To test the new status order, go to a task or project associated with the group, 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

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Setup Setup icon .

  2. In the left panel, click Groups, then click the name of the group.

  3. In the left panel, click Statuses.

  4. Click the Issues tab.

  5. (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.

  6. Drag and drop the statuses in the order you want.

    The new status order is saved automatically.

  7. To test the new status order, go to an issue associated with the group, click the status in the upper-right corner, and make sure the statuses that display are in the order that you configured.

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