Situation: As indicated in the following topic, when changing an idea's status via the API, no status reply is created.

 As a result, the user is not actively notified of the status change, and the status transition is not visually visible in the topic.

This is, however, the case when changing the status via Control.

Idea: My suggestion is to formally provide the option to include a status update reply in the status API — just as would be the case if the status were changed via Control.