Status for Templates like it automatically appears on regular pages

[acolbourne]

Hi smart Atlassian friends! 

I am really loving the status that is populated when you create a new page in Confluence. It's such a great feature that I'm hoping to mimic the same behaviour on the templates I have built.

I know that I can manually add /status to include the macro, but this doesn't replicate the same behaviour that is found at the top of the pages created without templates 

[Julie d_Antin _Elements_]

Hi @acolbourne Welcome to Community.

The status that is available at the top of the page and the status macro you can add anywhere you want on your page are separate, but both are available on both "new" pages and pages created from templates.

For example, here I created a page using the Brainstorming template, then added a status "In progress"

[acolbourne]

Interesting! Thanks @Julie d_Antin _Elements_  - it doesn't appear to show up for me when I create the pages from the customized templates I built. Maybe I needed to add something that I didn't know in order to get that to appear?

[Julie d_Antin _Elements_]

I don't think the status is automatic, you need to set it once you've created the page. You might need to publish your page once, then go back to edit it in order to have the status option available.

[acolbourne]

That doesn't seem to be it - I've created a page from the template, published it and then reopened it to edit and it's still not there.

[Julie d_Antin _Elements_]

Even when you hover the mouse over the area, you don't see an option to add an emoji, header image, or page status?