Two new features in Advanced Roadmaps in March

Last updated: March 21, 2022

This past month, we’ve added two highly-requested features to Advanced Roadmaps:

the ability to edit issue descriptions from your timeline, and
export your plan as a flat image (.png format).

Let’s go into a little more detail about them.

Edit issue descriptions from your timeline - Big news! You can now edit issue descriptions directly from your timeline. To use this new feature, select the issue summary that you want to edit:

And you’ll be greeted with the new, robust text editor modal:

From this modal, you can edit either issue summary (in this example, Build UI) or the issue description. When you select Add a description, the rich text editor will open:

Export roadmap to an image (.png) - This past month, we’ve added a new way to share your plan: as a static image (in .png format). When you create an image of your plan, Advanced Roadmaps generates a flat image of your timeline which you can share via email, use in presentations, and more.

Exporting your plan as an image like this offers a few advantages over simply screenshotting your plan, such as:

A true legend - When you’re sharing your plan with those who aren’t familiar with Advanced Roadmaps, the legend in the lower left tells viewers what the markings mean and how to read your plan.
No more stitching images together - Advanced Roadmaps can export your entire plan in one fell swoop--up to 500 issues in one shot.

Learn how saving your plan as a flat image as well as limitations of the tool.

17 comments

so we are constantly begging (not even asking, but begging) Atlassian to fix some of the bugs that are mindblowing that even exist at this point... and we get Edit items on roadmap level... and an export?

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@Arturs Kalnins it's not on the roadmap

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Yep, this is what happens when you have "Product Managers", who are focused/measured on feature delivery only, instead of the overall customer experience.

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I just need to see a roadmap across multiple team-managed and company-managed projects... The "Advanced Roadmaps" doesn't offer this.

The "BigPicture" App seems to be able to do this. Why can't Jira offer it?

If anyone has a better idea, please let me know:-)

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I would love to know when Advanced Roadmaps will have the concept of a Milestone Event. It's more than a little ridiculous not to have this feature in a "Roadmap".

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Hello guys! Please, can you help me explaining how can I insert my issues on roadmaps as the example of Veridian app? I just know how to do that with the epics, then to apply the issues in roadmap, do I need to create to following sprints? Thank you in advance.

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why advanced Roadmaps not showing like Gantt chart mainly for Releases views

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@David Annis use Jira "releases"? They can be added to the roadmap and use the burndown charts to track progress.

Ted -> Have you set the view to show lower levels?
Is this what you meant?
Screenshot 2022-03-31 at 13.41.07.png

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@James Pearson we do use Releases. But in the Roadmap that only results in a Filter.

What I'm asking for are Milestones that represent a specific date and a Release may have several Milestones or critical dates that need to be met.

Nearly every other Project Management Tool in the world has a concept of a Milestone, including many Agile PM tools. This is a huge feature that is missing from Jira's Roadmap.

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Hey @Arturs Kalnins - Are you referring to bugs in Advanced Roadmaps? If so, I'd be keen to know specifically what issues you're begging to be fixed. Do you know if there are JAC tickets raised for them?

@Rhys Christian I'm talking about overall bugs in Jira cloud not roadmap specific
I can give you a lists and lists of bugs that are mindblowing that are not fixed.

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Interesting

I know the export feature for .png was added for Jira Cloud. Does anyone know if it is available in the March update for Jira Data Center? We still have the February version and I was hoping that once we update, the export feature will also be available for Jira Data Center users. Thanks!