# Configure the Status column

Workflow Hub reads a Status column and turns its labels into steps, so the column is worth getting right before you draw any transitions.

You can use a column that already exists, or add one.

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## Setting it up

![monday.com board with the Status column label editor open over an item, listing Working on it, Stuck, Done and a default label, with New label and Apply buttons below.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/8153359c-016e-4d9f-8a1a-8ec814c3be52.webp)

Every label you keep in this list becomes a step, so the labels are the steps the workflow can use.

| **Step** | **What you do**                                                                             |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1        | Open the board you want the workflow on. An existing board is fine.                         |
| 2        | If it has no Status column, add one with the + button to the right of the existing columns. |
| 3        | Set the labels to the steps of your process, in the order work actually moves through them. |

ℹ️

**Name the labels after the state, not the action.** "In review" is a step; "Send for review" is a transition. The transitions are drawn separately, in the workflow builder.

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## Getting the labels right

* One label per real step. Two labels nobody can tell apart become two steps nobody can tell apart.
* Include the ends: where work starts and where it finishes.
* Include the unhappy ones. Rejected, blocked and cancelled are steps too.

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## A few things worth knowing

* Changing a label later changes the step, because the column stays the source of truth.
* Every item on the board shares the workflow, so the labels have to suit all of them.
* The status is still editable from the column itself; the workflow governs the app's transitions.

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## Related

[Build a board workflowDrawing the transitions.](https://help.gocapable.com/workflow-hub/build-a-board-workflow.html)

[Getting startedThe step before.](https://help.gocapable.com/workflow-hub/getting-started.html)

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_Labels are steps. Get them right first._