In the Timeline, why are the lightning bolt bullets always purple instead of the Epic color?

Joe Ancona

In the Timeline, why are the lightning bolt bullets always purple instead of matching the Epic color you've set?

It hurts the human brain to have the Epic bullet icons all be purple, instead of the assigned colors of that Epic... especially when there is actually an Epic assigned to purple.

Having the lightning bolts all be purple forces you read each epic (or look at time line elements which may not be visible in the current time window range), before expanding the Epic.... If you are in charge of items in the 'Red' Epic, your eyes can just go straight to the red lightning bolt and expand... instead of looking through dozens of purple lighting bolts?

What is the purpose of changing the color of the timeline bars if you don't also match it up with the lightning bolt bullets!

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Joe Ancona 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Are you referring to the graphics that appear to the left of the issue keys?

Those are the Issue Type Icons. They have nothing to do with colors assigned to individual issues. They are based exclusively on the issue type of the issue. 

If you want to show colors for your issues you can color the bars shown in the timeline based on the guidance shown here:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/add-color-to-issues-on-your-advanced-roadmaps-timeline/

 

I didn't find a change request to show colors based on the color selected for the individual issue, in the Atlassian public backlog. You might want to raise that suggestion through a support case or by providing feedback directly from within the Jira application.