Using advanced roadmaps, is it possible to create dummy issues?

[Denise Marshall]

We use epics as support requests and, under an epic, there may be one or many task and sub-task issues. I would like to be able to group together epics for the purpose of visualising them together on the Advance Roadmap gantt chart. Is this possible?

[Hana Kučerová · Accepted solution]

Hi @Denise Marshall ,

welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Yes, there's a great variability, which issues can be visible in roadmap plan. You can for example create custom filter with your epics and then use it as a issue source for your plan.

[Denise Marshall]

Would using it as an issue source group those tickets and show them at the same time as other tickets in other groups on the gantt chart?

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Denise Marshall ,

you can create new issue type called for example Initiative and configure, that this issue type is above Epic in hierarchy. Then create a few Initiatives and connect different Epics to different Initiatives. Then you can see data and charts for the group of Epics (because they are grouped under Initiatives).