Advanced Roadmaps: Exclusion Rules not working on Initiatives?

Question

Hello,

We're using Advanced Roadmaps, and have created a special status PROPOSED for "brand new initiatives", which should not be shown in the Roadmap until their details are fleshed out.

We've then added PROPOSED to the list of excluded statuses in the "Exclusion Rules".

Despite this, all the initiatives with the Status PROPOSED are still showing up in our Plan.

Any idea what might be going on here? Status-based exclusion seems to work on all other issue types, except initiatives...

PS: Despite the fact that we're now paying for Jira Cloud Premium, we still somehow seem to have no access to direct customer support, so our only recourse are the forums!

Carlos Garcia_fsch24 · Answer

The problem seems to be that items with "excluded statuses" might have child items with non-excluded statuses.

This is very inconvenient, because possible workarounds are always one of either:

* Delete all child items you don't want, until you move the work item to a status you do want in focus (so you cannot have placeholders or drafts inside!), OR
* Remove child items from the plan until you change the status to something you do want in focus (by which time you will have forgotten about the excluded child items, and then spend an hour figuring out what's going on), OR
* Have a separate status for child items, and keep everything orchestrated somehow (maybe through automations)

Shahenaaz Syed · Answer

Did it work? I changes my status "Rejected" to DONE category, but no luck.

Allan.Neuhaus · Answer

@Carlos Garcia

Seems like my exclusion status is working now. Canceled items no longer show up on my advanced roadmaps.  As mentioned above every status is assigned 1 of 3 sub statuses.  Go to the status you created and click 'edit' and select the category.   One thing that still seems an issue is that Canceled statuses may still take capacity in the current sprint (Jiira doesn't know that the issue was cancled. Just sees it as another for of Done (Resolved). Will need to test a bit more.