The Timeline view in Jira projects used to show Epics, which you could expand to see all stories within those epics.Since today it seems that this has changed:it's also showing all stories that aren't assigned to any epicbut more importantly: It's also showing my initiatives and themes that we are using in our Jira plans.What this means is that I can't sort epics anymore independently from the initiatives they have been assigned toWhen hiding the initiatives and themes via quick filter, only stories are shown (without the epic hierarchy) and with this new icon:Question: how can I get it back to how it was before?

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Timeline view in Jira spaces has changed over the weekend?

Timeline view in Jira spaces has changed over the weekend?

The Timeline view in Jira projects used to show Epics, which you could expand to see all stories within those epics.
Since today it seems that this has changed:

it's also showing all stories that aren't assigned to any epic
but more importantly: It's also showing my initiatives and themes that we are using in our Jira plans.
- What this means is that I can't sort epics anymore independently from the initiatives they have been assigned to
- When hiding the initiatives and themes via quick filter, only stories are shown (without the epic hierarchy) and with this new icon:

Question: how can I get it back to how it was before?

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Hello @Christian Happel

It´s related to the announced changes.

Upcoming: Unified, More Powerful Timeline for Jira... - Atlassian Community

You can give Feedback on it, but this UI behavior cannot be really reverted if it was rolled out on your Site.

Best,

Arek🤠

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The new UI behavior is causing a lot of friction. Could we please revert it? It is significantly reducing our team's agility.

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We are experiencing challenges in our planning due to these limitations as well. It would be greatly appreciated if we'd be able to roll back this UI change.

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I agree as well that this change created lots of confusion. The timeline view now shows also tasks along with epics.

Some tasks that were created later and assigned to an epic does not seem to show in the expanded dialog window of an epic; they show up in the timeline as separate task but when clicking on the "Show hierarchy" button, the relationship is correct.

Additionally, it seems that the filter "Hide done work items" does not have any effect on the child items of an epic.

I think this was a major step back to the Timeline dashboard.

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This has completely undermined multiple work management processes and made understanding individual workloads across multiple epics far more complicated. Using any filter results in this flattening and breaks apart the clear high-level picture that was previously provided. Without significant change to internal process, this change destroys the value of the timeline view.

At the very least when it flattens group child items next to their parent/epic item. It currently just shuffles everything together making it overly complicated to understand which child items relate to which parents, requiring dozens more interactions on the page to hunt down all the details.

The filter change is also arbitrarily inconvenient. In a team-managed space why would I ever need to filter to assignees not included on the team, parents not in the workspace, labels that don't exist in the workspace, and work types/statuses not used in the team-managed space. Now I've got to scroll or search for the values relevant to the team-managed space I'm in. The environment is meant to be agile, adding 1-3 seconds to every action taken adds up quickly and is definitely not agile.

At least make the changes optional instead of forced.

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