What are unmapped versions in Jira Cloud?

[Roland Traier-Kiss _Midori_]

Hi Everyone,

I've been working with the Project versions REST API recently. When using the "issuesstatus" expand, it returns the number of issues (grouped by status category) where a given version is listed as "fix version".

"issuesStatusForFixVersion": {
    "unmapped": 0,
    "toDo": 3
    "inProgress": 1
    "done": 2
}

What I don't know is how can an issue be in the "unmapped" status category. As far as I know, you can't create custom status categories, and new statuses have to have a valid status category.
So, is this "unmapped" status category even used? If so, how can I add issues to it?

Thank you for your answer in advance!
Roland

[Ste Wright · Accepted solution]

Hi @Roland Traier-Kiss _Midori_ 

Some status end up in "No Category", which I assume is what this is referring to.

As far as I know, these are statuses generated by Atlassian in various circumstances, which you can then change to one of the 3 existing categories. Once changed, it's not possible to change it back to "No Category".

Ste

[Roland Traier-Kiss _Midori_]

Thanks for your answer @Ste Wright !
So this is not something I can easily set.
That's all I wanted to know, thank you!