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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Feature request: manipulate project issue status","articleBody":"## Description of the problem, including code/CLI snippet\nMy team is currently moving to tracking issues using the issue status introduced in Gitlab 18.2:\nhttps://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/07/17/gitlab-18-2-released/#custom-workflow-statuses-for-issues-and-tasks\n\nMy 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)\n\n```\n{\n  \"id\": 177073754,\n  \"iid\": ...,\n  \"project_id\": ...,\n  \"title\": \"...\",\n  \"description\": \"...\",\n  \"state\": \"opened\",\n  \"created_at\": \"2025-11-13T21:49:44.290Z\",\n  \"updated_at\": \"2025-11-13T21:49:44.290Z\",\n  \"closed_at\": null,\n  \"closed_by\": null,\n  \"labels\": [\n    ...\n  ],\n  \"milestone\": {\n    \"id\": 4775912,\n    \"iid\": ...,\n    \"project_id\": ...,\n    \"title\": \"Development\",\n    \"description\": \"Development (non-production) work that has yet to merge.\",\n    \"state\": \"active\",\n    \"created_at\": \"2021-10-01T18:45:11.056Z\",\n    \"updated_at\": \"2025-02-27T21:17:20.634Z\",\n    \"due_date\": \"2030-06-30\",\n    \"start_date\": \"2026-06-01\",\n    \"expired\": false,\n    \"web_url\": \"...\"\n  },\n  \"assignees\": [],\n  \"author\": {\n    \"id\": 31427160,\n    \"username\": \"project_..._bot_...\",\n    \"public_email\": null,\n    \"name\": \"...\",\n    \"state\": \"active\",\n    \"locked\": false,\n    \"avatar_url\": \"...\",\n    \"web_url\": \"...\"\n  },\n  \"type\": \"ISSUE\",\n  \"assignee\": null,\n  \"user_notes_count\": 0,\n  \"merge_requests_count\": 0,\n  \"upvotes\": 0,\n  \"downvotes\": 0,\n  \"due_date\": null,\n  \"confidential\": false,\n  \"discussion_locked\": null,\n  \"issue_type\": \"issue\",\n  \"web_url\": \"...\",\n  \"time_stats\": {\n    \"time_estimate\": 0,\n    \"total_time_spent\": 0,\n    \"human_time_estimate\": null,\n    \"human_total_time_spent\": null\n  },\n  \"task_completion_status\": {\n    \"count\": 1,\n    \"completed_count\": 0\n  },\n  \"weight\": 1,\n  \"blocking_issues_count\": 0,\n  \"has_tasks\": false,\n  \"_links\": {\n    \"self\": \"...\",\n    \"notes\": \"...\",\n    \"award_emoji\": \"...\",\n    \"project\": \"...\",\n    \"closed_as_duplicate_of\": null\n  },\n  \"references\": {\n    \"short\": \"...\",\n    \"relative\": \"...\",\n    \"full\": \"...\"\n  },\n  \"severity\": \"UNKNOWN\",\n  \"subscribed\": true,\n  \"moved_to_id\": null,\n  \"imported\": false,\n  \"imported_from\": \"none\",\n  \"service_desk_reply_to\": null,\n  \"epic_iid\": ...,\n  \"epic\": {\n    \"id\": ...,\n    \"iid\": ...,\n    \"title\": \"..\",\n    \"url\": \"\",\n    \"group_id\": ...\n  },\n  \"iteration\": null,\n  \"health_status\": null\n}\n```\n\nUnfortunately, 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.\n\n## Expected Behavior\n```\nissue: ProjectIssue = jointsProject.issues.create(\n    {\n      'title': issueTitle,\n      'description': issueDescription,\n      'status': 'Approval Queue',                               # This is what I'd like to work, or some equivalent\n      'labels': [ ],\n      'milestone_id': developmentMilestoneID,  \n      'epic_iid': epicID,\n      'weight': 1,\n    }\n  )\n```\n\n\u003cimg width=\"301\" height=\"82\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/70707ae4-5841-43cb-8f21-fdc85ece42fe\" /\u003e\n\n## Actual Behavior\n\n\u003cimg width=\"311\" height=\"94\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a3aa35cd-0992-49c8-95ba-68f202ab4bc8\" /\u003e\n\n## Specifications\n\n  - python-gitlab version: 7.0.0\n  - Gitlab server version (or gitlab.com): GitLab Enterprise Edition 18.6.0-pre [b618d849058](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commits/b618d849058)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/totternessZB","@type":"Person","name":"totternessZB"},"datePublished":"2025-11-13T22:17:33.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/3295/python-gitlab/issues/3295"}