Feature request: manipulate project issue status #3295
Description
Description of the problem, including code/CLI snippet
My team is currently moving to tracking issues using the issue status introduced in Gitlab 18.2:
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/07/17/gitlab-18-2-released/#custom-workflow-statuses-for-issues-and-tasks
My company uses this library to automate opening gitlab issues. Below is a snippet from said automation. I tried to get at what I could send in the create() method by dumping issue to JSON and got the following (company info redacted)
{
"id": 177073754,
"iid": ...,
"project_id": ...,
"title": "...",
"description": "...",
"state": "opened",
"created_at": "2025-11-13T21:49:44.290Z",
"updated_at": "2025-11-13T21:49:44.290Z",
"closed_at": null,
"closed_by": null,
"labels": [
...
],
"milestone": {
"id": 4775912,
"iid": ...,
"project_id": ...,
"title": "Development",
"description": "Development (non-production) work that has yet to merge.",
"state": "active",
"created_at": "2021-10-01T18:45:11.056Z",
"updated_at": "2025-02-27T21:17:20.634Z",
"due_date": "2030-06-30",
"start_date": "2026-06-01",
"expired": false,
"web_url": "..."
},
"assignees": [],
"author": {
"id": 31427160,
"username": "project_..._bot_...",
"public_email": null,
"name": "...",
"state": "active",
"locked": false,
"avatar_url": "...",
"web_url": "..."
},
"type": "ISSUE",
"assignee": null,
"user_notes_count": 0,
"merge_requests_count": 0,
"upvotes": 0,
"downvotes": 0,
"due_date": null,
"confidential": false,
"discussion_locked": null,
"issue_type": "issue",
"web_url": "...",
"time_stats": {
"time_estimate": 0,
"total_time_spent": 0,
"human_time_estimate": null,
"human_total_time_spent": null
},
"task_completion_status": {
"count": 1,
"completed_count": 0
},
"weight": 1,
"blocking_issues_count": 0,
"has_tasks": false,
"_links": {
"self": "...",
"notes": "...",
"award_emoji": "...",
"project": "...",
"closed_as_duplicate_of": null
},
"references": {
"short": "...",
"relative": "...",
"full": "..."
},
"severity": "UNKNOWN",
"subscribed": true,
"moved_to_id": null,
"imported": false,
"imported_from": "none",
"service_desk_reply_to": null,
"epic_iid": ...,
"epic": {
"id": ...,
"iid": ...,
"title": "..",
"url": "",
"group_id": ...
},
"iteration": null,
"health_status": null
}
Unfortunately, I was not able to discern from this information how to set the status. Please let me know if it exists and this is a case of user error.
Expected Behavior
issue: ProjectIssue = jointsProject.issues.create(
{
'title': issueTitle,
'description': issueDescription,
'status': 'Approval Queue', # This is what I'd like to work, or some equivalent
'labels': [ ],
'milestone_id': developmentMilestoneID,
'epic_iid': epicID,
'weight': 1,
}
)
Actual Behavior
Specifications
- python-gitlab version: 7.0.0
- Gitlab server version (or gitlab.com): GitLab Enterprise Edition 18.6.0-pre b618d849058