I'm really at a loss. I think it should be dead-easy to create a button that updates a status, but I can't work it out. 
On a custom record page I want a Quick Action button. When the user presses that button the status (a field on the record) needs to be set to a certain value. 

The closest I got was creating a custom component and call that component from the Quick Button. But annoyingly this comes up with a popup (in which the componant normally would show) whilst my component's Init method updates the status as I want. This works, but is not what I want.
The second aproach would be to use a flow URL in a button, but unfortunately you can't use regular buttons in Lightning either :(

Now I've also been looking at workflows and other stuff, so I'm not opposed to a 'non-coding' approach. I just don't know how to do it...
Anyone?