Are Themes available in Advanced Roadmap

[Kathy Barton]

Good old Portfolio had a Themes option that was super useful. I just built out a proposed solution using Advanced Roadmaps only to discover I can't find Themes anywhere! Is it gone? Does it have a new name? I really need that option. 

Thanks! 

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Themes has been replaced by hierarchy levels, which allows you to set up our own levels. I believe the plan was to out phase themes, in version 3 of Portfolio if I remember correctly they started hiding themes.

[Kathy Barton]

Thanks for the info. I'll stop hunting for them. The advantage to Themes is you could apply them across the hierarchy levels. Since hierarchy levels have always been a core part of Portfolio I don't see how they are a replacement for a feature that is totally different :( 

[Mikael Sandberg]

I asked at the last live Summit about it and if I remember correctly the answer why moving away from themes was because it was not being used that much according to their research, but I agree, themes was very useful.

[Dave]

I just wanted to make a minor correction to the answer. Hierarchy levels were not introduced to replace themes - the previous interface for Advanced Roadmaps (known as "Live Plans") already let you add additional hierarchy levels.

I've provided a more detail explanation here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Advanced-Roadmaps-discussions/Use-Case-Managing-an-OKR-driven-organisation-using-Advanced/td-p/1472417#M304

Regards,

Dave

[Jeff Miller]

To create the hierarchy Above Epic you need to add Themes and Initiatives. See the link below for details. 

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/configure-custom-hierarchy-levels-in-advanced-roadmaps/