How do you change the colour of a bar for a task in the timeline view

Question

We use Jira standard - Cloud.

I'm using the timeline view and showing start and end dates for 'Releases' and for 'Tasks'.  'releases' have the green avatar in the image below. How do I change the colour of the bars?

The tasks are not under Epics and I don't show epics at all in the timeline. I know how to change Epic colours.

Please see the image below. As I was creating this today the 'Releases' were showing as Blue bars and then I started adding tasks and they showed Grey.  That was fine, I'm not fussy on the colour, happy for the colour even to be per issuetype if needed. But now when I add a new 'Release', that is showing as Grey! (CRM-135 near the bottom)   I cannot find the setting to control the colours. Please advise.

David Friedrich · Accepted Answer

Hi @Paul Treadwell ,

I'm afraid, you cannot assign a fixed bar color to a non-Epic issue in Timeline. If you want color control, you need to group work under Epics, since Epic colors are editable. Even if you're not using Epics for hierarchy, you could group tasks under placeholder Epics just for visual clarity.

Paul Treadwell · Accepted Answer

Colour is not customisable, but the colour does change depending on the status of the jira issue being shown in the timeline.

i.e  Grey  - not started, Blue - in progress, Green - done