Making the progress bar (baattery= dependant on a different input that status colum

In project we like to use the progress bar (battery) to report on the progress (per item or group) that we are making. We report on decimals (10% / 20 %…). Right now we add numerous status columns that reflect in the battery, but this workaround clutters the board. Is there another way? or make this a feaature?

Similarly, I have created many statuses and played around them them until we found what we liked. I wanted to try to use the Battery Widget to show our progress, but it is mapping the “Done” status to a different status I created that is not equivalent. I believe this happened because I edited the defaulted “Done” status to something else and created a new “Done” status. It would be helpful if I could reroute this to the status we want to show the percentage of and showcase that on the widget.

Has anyone found a work around for this yet? We are the same, we use percentages% for our progress, not stages that work as columns. Example: A group may be “Create Training Docs” and the tasks are the document names. We have a manual column for “Progress %” and we update the % as we progress through creating each document. It would be nice to see a battery or gauge based on input %'s as that’s more visual than a column with 10% or 90%.