How to Set Up Custom Board Columns and Statuses in WannaTrack
Most boards ship with a fixed set of lanes, and your team quietly bends its process to fit them. In this tutorial we set up custom statuses and board columns in WannaTrack so the board mirrors the way your team actually works: a QA stage, a Blocked status you can't miss, and columns that map to the statuses you choose.
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What you'll learn:
• How statuses and columns relate: statuses describe the work, columns decide where it shows up
• Adding custom statuses with colours (QA Review, Blocked)
• The Show on board toggle for statuses that shouldn't clutter your columns
• Creating a QA column and mapping it to its status
• Mapping several statuses to one column (Done + Abandoned)
• How drag and drop keeps ticket status in sync automatically
• Time-in-status on every card, and reports that speak your workflow
• Sync from tickets, for projects imported from Jira
Chapters:
0:00 Why custom columns matter
0:39 Statuses vs columns, the key idea
0:55 The four defaults
1:09 Adding a QA Review status
1:19 Adding a Blocked status
1:26 The Show on board toggle
1:38 Board columns tab
1:42 Creating the QA column
1:49 One column, several statuses
2:00 The new column, live on the board
2:06 Drag a ticket, the status updates
2:16 Change the status, the card moves
2:26 Time in status on every card
2:39 Reports in your workflow's language
2:48 Sync from tickets after a Jira import
3:02 Recap
3:14 Try the live demo