Statuses

Statuses track where a post sits in your workflow. Rename, recolor, and reorder them, and map your statuses to the three public roadmap buckets in Feedjolt.

A status is the state a post is in: "Under review", "Planned", "Shipped", whatever your team uses.

Defaults

A new workspace ships with five statuses:

Open - the default for new submissions. Not on the roadmap.
Under Review - being triaged. Not on the roadmap.
Planned - committed, on the roadmap, not started yet.
In Progress - actively being built.
Complete - done.

You can rename, recolor, reorder, or delete any of these.

Custom statuses

Dashboard -> Settings -> Statuses. For each status:

Name - short, action-oriented. "Researching" beats "TBD".
Color - used in the dashboard and portal.
Sort order - controls the column order on the dashboard roadmap.
Show on roadmap - toggle. Only statuses with this on appear as columns on the dashboard roadmap.
Public bucket - Planned, In Progress, Done, or Hidden. Controls which column (if any) the status maps to on the public portal roadmap.
Default - exactly one status is the default for new posts.

Dashboard roadmap vs public roadmap

Two views, two controls:

The dashboard roadmap has one column per status with Show on roadmap on, ordered by sort order. Optimised for member triage.
The public roadmap always has exactly three columns - Planned, In Progress, Done - and groups your statuses into those buckets via the Public bucket field. A status with no bucket assigned never appears on the public roadmap.

That separation lets you keep a fine-grained internal workflow (Researching, Up next, Beta, GA) while showing customers a simple three-step story. Configure the mapping at Dashboard -> Portal -> Public roadmap.

Workflow rules

We don't enforce status transitions. You can move a post from "Shipped" back to "Under review" if you need to. Power-tool, sharp edges; we trust you.

If you want guardrails, a future "workflow rules" feature is on the roadmap. Until then, train your triage team.

What changing a status does

Changing a status:

Records a status change event with who, when, from -> to.
Triggers notifications: email to the post author and subscribers; Slack message if the workspace has a channel mapping for status.changed.
Moves the post on the dashboard roadmap (if "Show on roadmap" is on for both old and new status) and on the public roadmap (if both statuses have a public bucket assigned).
Optionally publishes a changelog entry - for status changes to a "Done"-bucket status, you can promote the post to a changelog entry in one click.

Status history

Every status change is logged. Open a post in the dashboard and click History to see the full timeline (post created -> status changed -> ...).

This data is API-accessible via the public API.