I am trying to get my Jira cards to change colour according to their workflow status “Status”.
I can get it to work fine for the Summary field, but not for status. Is there a trick to getting this to work, or might something be mis-configured in the back-end? The status field shows for selection, but no matter what value or criteria I use, it doesn’t want to use my rule. Anyone have any ideas?
Hi
The issue you're seeing with conditional formatting on the Status field is likely due to how Lucid reads the JIRA data—Status might be a nested object e.g., Status.name rather than plain text.
While formatting works for Summary because it's a simple string, Status often requires referencing the correct subfield or matching the value exactly (case-sensitive, no extra spaces).
Try this:
Check the actual data under the Data Panel to confirm the structure.
Update your condition to match, e.g:
- Status == "In Progress" if it's flat
- Status.name == "In Progress" if nested
To learn more - Add fill color to Jira cards in Lucid | Community
Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!
Thank you very much and have a great one!
Warm regards
Check out this post with Ambar’s formula halfway down the thread: this.$status may be the key you are looking for
Many thanks for that reference - it does work, but LUCID is saying “See errors above”. I have tried changing the quotes, =signs and re-typing from scratch, but it is still showing as an error, despite it happily colour coding the expression …

The more detailed error message says ‘ “Status” was not found in “lHAlAUIVnsFt” ‘
Any ideas how to fix this?
“this” should almost always be lower case. Not sure if that makes a difference.
If you’re not in a rush, i’d be happy to lend a pair of eyes to hacking at it some evening if you want. Tonight is open actually.
Hi
yes. monday & wednesday after 330pm cst. the rest of my last name is ollum. find me on linkedin and we can coordinate
Hi
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Does that work for you?
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