Link Milestones on Timeline to Ideas

[Philipp Rösch]

Is it possible to link a Milestone on a JPD timeline to a project?

We use timelines to visualize progress across mulitple ideas / projects, and our users are missing a connection between the milestones and the ideas they represent. They would love to open the idea by clicking on the milestone. 

Ideally, we would like to auto-generate milestones based on date fields on ideas, with a setting to assign different colours based on ideas and / or date fields (ie. all go lives in one colour or symbol, go/no go dates in another). 

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Hi @Philipp Rösch and welcome to the Community!

I suppose you refer to the markers you can add to your timeline as milestones? I think you're right: they are visual markers of important events, but they stand on their own. In JPD there is no link between a mark and ideas.

In delivery (traditional Jira spaces), adding work to releases can help you accomplish that link you are after. On a plan in Jira Premium, releases are displayed in a similar fashion on the delivery roadmap and work items can be tracked from the release they are associated with as you describe.

Hope this helps!

[Tanguy Crusson]

Hi, we're currently working on adding better support for hierarchies in the timeline view to do things like what you're describing. 

In this example "refactor user profile data" might be a milestone that has 2 ideas (and you can clearly see their relationship. Would that help?