Statuses & priorities

Two fields drive how a task moves and how it's ranked: its status (where it is in the workflow) and its priority (how urgent it is).

Statuses and your board

On the Kanban board, each column represents a status, and dragging a task between columns changes its status. Under the hood, Bluprint tracks a consistent set of states so that reporting, filtering, and the Associate work the same way in every project:

• To Do — not started
• In Progress — actively being worked on
• In Review — done and awaiting review or approval
• Done — complete
• Blocked — can't move forward until something is resolved

Column names depend on your template

Here's the part that surprises people: the column names you see aren't fixed — they come from the template you choose when creating the project. The labels change to fit the kind of work; the underlying states stay the same.

Project template	Board columns
Software Development	Backlog · In Progress · Review · Done
Marketing Campaign	Ideas · In Progress · Review · Launched
Design Project	Backlog · Design · Review · Approved
Product Launch	Planning · Preparation · Launch · Post-Launch
General	To Do · In Progress · Done

When a task reaches the final column

Whatever your template calls it — Done, Launched, Approved, Post-Launch — reaching the completed state stamps the task with a completion time, and clears it again if the task is reopened. That timestamp is what powers velocity and completion metrics across the project.

Priorities

Priority tells everyone how urgent a task is, independently of its template. There are four levels, the same in every project:

• Low
• Medium (the default)
• High
• Urgent

On the board, tasks are ordered by priority so the most important work rises to the top of each column, with pinned tasks kept above the rest.

Next

• Subtasks & checklists
• Dependencies