Additional Configuration in Timeline?

[Katie Ryser]

I need to organize several epics in my timeline view for a complex, cross functional project. It would be helpful to add swimlanes or some other type of visual divider for each grouping, but I cannot figure out a way to configure timeline beyond turning it on and off. Is there additional customization available here?

Right now, my solution is to color code by effort, keep the epics grouped, and add a strict naming convention for my team to follow, but this method doesn't quite meet our needs

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @Katie Ryser and welcome to the Community!

I am not entirely sure what timeline you are referring to here. In Advanced Roadmaps, on the premium plan, you can use view settings to group your issues by a lot of different dimensions. Components or labels may be helpful to get you started dynamically ...

Hope this helps!

[Katie Ryser]

Hi Walter! I was hoping to keep the solution within one board. I believe I have access to something similar to Advanced Roadmaps, but in our instance it says Timeline. It is a Jira premium instance. The issue with leveraging anything through Plans is that in an ideal state, this view will be easy to embed into Confluence. I know I can do this in the Timeline(Gantt) view in our main board, but the other areas aren't quite as simple to share across products.

[Walter Buggenhout]

The timeline in your (single project) board is a basic timeline that simply does not have this capability.

If your goal is to share your view in a Confluence page, that is perfectly possible with a view from an advanced roadmaps plan. The Share button that is in there lets you create a link that can be embedded nicely in Confluence - read-only, but interactive. So your users in Confluence would even be able to navigate through it dynamically (scroll, expand or collapse parts of the view, ...). The only prerequisite is that they have access to the source data in Jira.

[Katie Ryser]

Ah, ok. So it would embed using an iframe, then?

Aside: I did not realize that Advanced Roadmaps was yes, included with Premium, but has to be enabled separately on my end. Long term, I think your solution will really help. Thank you!

[Walter Buggenhout]

It's not an iframe, really. It is just a smart link that you can copy, paste into your Confluence and it nicely generates a fully featured view of the plan, as if it was part of your Confluence page. 🤗