Jira Roadmap | levels to display & why does not an Epic/History/etc agreggates start/end date?

[Fabio Belotto]

Hello guys,

I am studying Jira Software as tool to controle a project under development.

One very interesting tool is the roadmap feature. It´s very useful to see the timeline of the epics, history, etc. So...

• How to set up which levels I want to see? My current project displays me only the EPIC and the HISTORY issue type on the roadmap. I want to see tasks and subtasks too
• Why does EPIC, History, etc, timelines do not aggregate the timeline (start/end dates) from tasks/subtasks? I imagine that the timeline of a history, for example, should be aggregated from bellow tasks, isn´t, right? 

Thanks

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Fabio Belotto 

Welcome to the community.

You have indicated that you are using the Free plan for Jira. In that case you have access only to Basic Roadmaps. You do not have an option to configure which issue types you see in the roadmap in that case. Your roadmap should show all the Epic issues and all the issues that are in the standard issue types that are part of your project's Issue Type Scheme. If Task is one of the standard issue types and you have issues of that type in your project, then they should be visible on the roadmap.

The roadmap will not show sub-tasks.

"History" is not a pre-defined issue type in Jira. That must be one that was added to your instance by a Jira Administrator.

You can learn more about the features and functionality of Basic Roadmaps from the documentation here:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/features/roadmaps?tab=basic

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides/roadmaps/basic-roadmaps

There is not a feature currently to automatically set start and end dates of parent issues (Epics) based on their child issues. You would need to use Automation Rules to keeps those in synch.

[Fabio Belotto]

And just to be sure, the "issues that are in the standard issue types" are always only one type, right? 

[Trudy Claspill]

No, that depends on the Issue Type Scheme for your project. You can have multiple issue types defined at the "standard" issue type level.

For a Company Managed project go to Project Settings > Summary and you will see the Issue Type Scheme. Example:

Epics are a special, singular issue type. Sub-tasks are another issue type that are indicated by the SUB-TASK indicator. All other issue types are in the "standard" issue type category.

In a Team Managed project you would select Project Settings > Issue Types. The "standard" issue types are the ones in the middle where my image shows Task and New Issue Type.