Statusandcompleted

Statusandcompleted is a concept used in task tracking and workflow systems to describe the relationship between an item’s current status and its completed state. The term emphasizes that a task or process can have an ongoing status while also having a separate indicator of completion.

In data models, status typically represents the current phase in a workflow, such as Open, In Progress, In Review, Blocked, or Completed. The completed flag is usually a boolean or date attribute that signals whether the work is finished, which may or may not align perfectly with the status. Some systems derive the completed state directly from status (for example, status = Completed implies completed = true). Others store them independently to support scenarios like archival, audit, or continued verification after formal completion.

Common values and patterns include: status as an enumerated field with a finite set of states; completed as a true/false flag or a completion timestamp; and optional fields such as percent complete or a completion date. In practice, a well-designed model keeps these two aspects consistent, providing clear rules for state transitions and reporting.

Use cases span software development, project management, manufacturing, and service delivery. Clear separation of status and completed supports nuanced reporting, auditing, and lifecycle management, while also enabling systems to reflect both active work and finished outcomes.

See also: workflow state, task status, state machine.