# What is Status Category?

Jira has 4 fields that are often confused

1. **Status Category**: Groups various statuses into broader categories to provide a quick overview of a task's state. Has `To Do`, `In Progress`, and `Done`. These are used to uniformly understand the phase of a task across different projects.
2. **Status**: Describes the specific stage a task is in within its lifecycle. Examples include `In Progress`, `In Review`, `QA`, `Closed`. Each status belongs to one of the status categories, helping to map more detailed stages to simpler groupings.
3. **Resolution**: Indicates the final outcome of a task once it is closed. It explains why a task was closed, with options like `Done`, `Won't Do`, `Duplicate`. This field is typically empty while a task is still open or in progress.
4. **Column**: Represents a visual component on a board (like in Kanban or Scrum boards) that correlates to task status. Columns organize tasks visually by status, facilitating a clearer view of workflow and progress through statuses like `To Do`, `Doing`, `Done`.

Below is an example board reflecting different Status Categories, Statuses and Columns.

**Status Categories:**

* To Do (gray)
* In Progress (blue)
* Done (green)

**Columns:**

* TO DO
* IN PROGRESS
* IN REVIEW
* MERGED
* DONE

**Statuses:**

* TODO
* IN PROGRESS
* IN REVIEW
* MERGED
* DONE
* WON'T DO

You can access the following page from your [Board configurations](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/configuring-a-board-938845252.html).

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