set jira project status

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Is it possible to set a project status (e.g. completed etc) in jira by default? If not, is there a plugin I can use for this?

[Thomas Schlegel]

Jira does not know a project status. There's an open ticket for that: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1450 

Maybe you want to vote for the issue.

There's a plugin "ictime time tracking" that offers some kind of project status, but it is not for free and I did not try that plugin, so I can't say, if it is worth the price. There may be other plugins, this is the first one, I found.

We "archive" closed projects by simply removing all the permissions on the project.

[Anton Chemlev - Toolstrek -]

We've solved this task by project categories using dotted notation.

For example Development.Archived, Development.Running etc. And then we use "category" field in JQL to get issues.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's also an add-on that gives you "project fields" in the marketplace, you could use one of those for a status.

Most of us use a "closed" permission scheme (sometimes hiding the project, but usually just allowing read-only access so no-one can change anything), and often we use the project category to indicate groups of ended projects.