How can i change the status in advanced roadmaps
Asked by ilonka:

Is it possible to change the status directly into the plan of advanced roadmaps, or do i need to go to the issue to change this?


Answers:
author: Clifford Gurney
body: Bump this ticket [**Change Issue status from within Jira Advanced Roadmap**](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JPOSERVER-2853) {#toc-hId--1237150504}
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author: Dave
body: There are a few reasons why you can't edit the status of an issue in a plan.

The first is because Advanced Roadmaps plans are a "sandbox" environment we'd need to ensure that it was clear that the change*wasn't* having an immediate effect (and if it did, then changing the status would be different from all other changes). At the moment we aren't clear what the correct approach should be ... i.e. the updated status change is pending until committed, or the change is immediate.

Secondly, depending upon your issue workflow it might be a requirement to provide additional data to the issue at the time of changing the workflow. Arguably we could support simple transitions where screens aren't required to be completed on transition though as this would be a simpler problem to solve and might address the majority of cases.

So although we recognise that value in being able to change workflow status from within a plan, there are significant challenges to making sure that this is a clear and intuitive experience.

But the final reason is that there is a very simple workaround to the problem (i.e. to go directly to the issue and change the status from the issue screen). There are a huge number of feature requests we have and when it comes to prioritising them we take factors like this into consideration. The fact that there is a workaround reduces the priority against features where there is no workaround.

I hope that explains why this capability isn't available at the moment - that isn't to say we don't think this would be an incredibly valuable feature. It's definitely something I'd like to see added but we only have a limited number of developers available and are unable to address all the feature requests as quickly as we'd like.

At the moment this feature isn't on our immediate roadmap so you shouldn't expect to see it added in the near future. I appreciate that this isn't the answer you're hoping for, but I just wanted to be honest and set expectations realistically,

Regards,  
Dave

comments: author: Steven Stroffolino
body: Hi and thanks for updating!

Completely appreciate the rationale as you have explained it but I cannot see how enabling this change is different from say, the ability to reassign a story to a colleague or to create a new story under an epic. ++**All**++ of these changes are 'pending' until published to the Jira project and so, *any* advanced roadmaps user will know this as a default. As you mentioned, it is a "Sandbox" environment so this type of change shouldn't differ from the others.

Even in the example you provide of further info being required prior to transitioning in a workflow, this is imposed by the project and therefore, as you mention, roadmaps can simply support transitions where this is not the case (Simple transitions with no blockers).

Quite rightly, there is a workaround but I must say, it isn't a great user experience nor is it a deal-breaker. My logic is; for small change - big impact items like this, it's a no brainer...


author: Dave
body: I'm definitely not disagreeing with you [@Steven Stroffolino](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4081286) ... and I probably agree that it would make sense to make the change pending until committed, I also agree that we could use the same approach as we do for required fields on commit... it's not that it's impossible to, just that it's necessarily a quick fix.

But in terms of priority let's compare with features such as Next-Gen project support, exporting plans as an image, support for editing description, additional custom field type support, individual capacity management, etc (please note I've just listed some common requests off the top of my head, these aren't all features we're currently working on!)... all customers have different perspectives on what the most important feature is and not all of them have simple workarounds.

However, I do completely agree this would be an incredibly useful feature and one that I would use on a daily basis.

Regards,

Dave


author: Valerie
body: Hi Dave,   
any updates on this?   
When planning product roadmaps cross-team we're moving many issues to a 'blocked' status. I see your points, I just checking in if that feature is now on the roadmap.   
thank you!


author: Dave Sheldon
body: Love Enhanced Roadmap, but having to open each issue to change the status is a pain! Seems odd that all other properties can be changed with no problem. Major gap in functionality.


author: Georg Wartenberg
body: Would love to be able to change status directly in a plan! It is a pain have to use the workaround with opening each issue to change the status.


author: Cedric Bernard
body: Sharing the same pain. Updating fields from advanced roadmap display is SOooooo confortable and efficient compared to the old fashionned way of dealing with dozens of open tabs....

Please, prioritize this request :-)

Cedric


author: Valerie
body: [@Cedric Bernard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4543386) [@Georg Wartenberg](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4037001) [@Dave Sheldon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3779635) [@Steven Stroffolino](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4081286) [@Greg Sadetsky](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4666483)   
you can vote for this ticket here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JPOSERVER-2853>


author: Jasmine Thomas _TechTime_
body: It would be super handy to be able to change the status from the roadmaps! I think if you make the change and commit it later would be a good approach.


author: Brent Betters
body: It is extremely painful to have to go back to my kanban board and search through dozens if not hundreds of cards to change status. An easy fix that would add a lot of value, would be to add click and change functionality in advanced roadmaps. All changes need to be reviewed before committing, so seems like an obvious feature add.


author: Ievgenii Vasiuk
body: The competitor plugins have this feature, because of that it might be hard for me to talk management/users into switching to a "native" plugin


author: Tomasz Pr?chniak
body: Dear Atlassian Team

How can you be so ignorant and not implement a simple functionality for more than 3 years now? I saw in JIRA dozens completely senseless and unneeded features and this one in really useful and important especially for PMs who work with roadmaps on the massive scale with hundred tasks. Switching in such a situation every time to the details of the task to change its status is unergonomic and time-consuming. It is really the waste of time. Please do something about it at last !!!!


author: Greg Sadetsky
body: Just to make sure, it's possible to update the assignee, and many, if not all of the fields' values (for an epic or issue) in the Advanced Roadmap, but the only field that cannot be updated is the status field?

We would really, really, really want to be able to update the status field from the Advanced Roadmap view. It would be terribly useful!

Thanks a lot!


author: Or Daniel
body: Hey, any updates on this?


author: Ramon Yll Prous
body: Any updates on this?


author: Roei Soudai
body: Seems like a basic UX behavior request.  
Do I really need to open each ticket change the status and refresh the page?  
Even via Bulk Action?


author: Quentin Feyaerts
body: Dear all,

We are currently releasing this feature in Advanced Roadmaps Cloud edition. You can read more about it on this announcement page: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-planning-articles/Update-Issue-status-directly-in-Advanced-Roadmaps/ba-p/2534687#M675>

Best regards,

Quentin  
Senior Frontend Engineer at Atlassian


author: Lars-Harald B?tnes
body: Please implement this for Cloud edition. can't see whats the problem. we can edit anything else!


author: Richard Ruyle
body: We had the same issue, very inconvenient. I had to create a custom field that is a pull down that matched our status. I then setup automation so when that value is changed, it has an if else that transitions the issue to the correct status. Not elegant but works


author: Richard D'Ambrosio
body: Having this same issue. I'm guessing it isn't possible?

comments: author: j.hoffmann
body: Same problem. Doesn't seem to work.


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