Allow us to have Custom Progress Status’s
It would be nice to be able to create custom status’s for your board.
We use additional status’s for when we are working on a task. For example something may be in progress but we would set the status to Waiting on Customer or Pending Testing.
It would be great to create our own status’s that can be applied to the Plan for better tracking.

30 comments
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Anonymous commented
very important to have a custom progress status
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Anonymous commented
Agree completely, this should be very easy to implement and adds a lot of value
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Anonymous commented
The same feeling as the other people here!!! Please allow us to add progress status's that work with our environments
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Anonymous commented
This would be a great thing!
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Anonymous commented
Feeling so limited without this feature ...
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Rajeshreeputra Pravin Dhondiba Gaikwad commented
Yes, this needs to be available in the planner. We do have statuses like Yet to Start, Pipelined, In Discussion, RND/POC, Inprogress, Roadblock, Waiting on user input, Waiting on third-party/vendor, Completed, UAT, Production approval pending, Production Approved, Deployment Approved, Deployment Completed, Infant Care, Closed.
If we have these statuses in Planner then we may not need to maintain separate excel to track activities.
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Anonymous commented
Agree 100%. Custom progress status will be SO useful
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Fiona Slavin commented
As each business has different requirements, adding customisable status options in Planner would be highly desirable. These need to be downloadable into an excel report as well. Thank you.
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Darvin Martin commented
We would benefit from this feature as well.
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François Généreux commented
Hi everyone! Any developpement about the Planner "custom status's"¿
Hi hope to see this feature in 2020..... will be very nice for our business and many others...
Have a good day,
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Felix commented
Agree.. Would be nice if the Status view would allow user to add more statues like you do with Buckets.
This newly added status values would then appear in the dropdown list in the task.in addition it would be very very helpful if the Start View (by bucket, by status etc) can be set with a URL parameter, so starting the Application out of MS-Teams will show the STATUS view initially!
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Christian Schuricht commented
please add the possibility to define custom status options like "on hold"
Also it would be great to have a backlog like in jira where you can collect everything and then send it to the board when needed. This however can be temporarily overcome with using buckets -
Aws commented
possibility to add ‘On-Hold’ under Task progress, when we add Planner Tab.
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Kamil Erdem commented
Why does such a simple development still not come. I need additional cases like Invoiced, Pending Approval. We sit down and write the same program in a week.
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Henry commented
We have tried to compensate for this issue by using different buckets, but it's more cumbersome and becomes redundant. Would be an excellent addition to the Planner system.
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Archibald Tuttle commented
We have projects that end up on hold for various reasons, and an "On hold" progress status would be good, allowing users to customize a set of progress status options would be far more more powerful and flexible, give better insight into tasks. Tasks have colored labels that can be customized easily, and provide far less useful information compared to a flexible status list.
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Anonymous commented
ABSOLUTELY
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Anonymous commented
This is a main reason we stopped using MS Planner (and MS Teams as a whole). A project management / task management app without basic statuses like "On Hold", "Dependent", "Pending Review" or a custom status option one can set for different teams is unfortunately very useless to us.
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Anonymous commented
Me too. Need to add my own dropdown list entries
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Anonymous commented
me too