Customizing Task type (Status and Completed fields)

Question

We have created our own "MDAction" custom type. The primary reason is that we need different values of "Status", and we dont want to mess with the built in "Task".
We have created lists based on MDAction and it works fine but we have one issue:
The users wants the behavior with Date in red when over due. Fine.
But when we remove the build column "Completed" (that gives provides the "Checkbox") - this column sets the original "Status" field to "Completed" and not the "MDAction". Having the "Completed" fields
confuses the users.
To our surprise, when wh remove "Completed", also the behavior with overdue Dates in red disappears.
How does this work, and how can we have "red over due dates without the completed column in the view"?
Thanks,
Jorgen

Answer 1

Hi Jorgen,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to remove ‘Completed’ column and make the Due Date red when the date is due.
As a workaround, you can customize the task form with InfoPath, and remove the ‘Completed’ column in the form view. For the Due Date with Red, you can create a rule for the Due Data column, the rule is like:
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Wendy
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