Task status in Zoho Projects indicates where a task is in its lifecycle. Default statuses include Open, In Progress, Completed, On Hold, and Cancelled. Project administrators can create custom statuses to match their specific workflow stages.
Navigate to Project Settings > Task Status to add statuses like Waiting for Review, Blocked, or In Testing. Custom statuses can be assigned colours for visual clarity and mapped to one of three states: Open, In Progress, or Closed, which affects completion percentage calculations.
Status is a categorical label; percentage completion is a numeric measure. A task can be In Progress at 90% or In Progress at 10%. Both fields together give a more complete picture of where a task stands than either field alone.
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