How do I change the color of an Epic in Portfolio?

[Stacy Anderson]

Hi all - 

I've seen examples of the portfolio view where epics are different colors. When I add epics they are always blue in portfolio even if I assign them a different color in the Backlog view. 

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Bram Van Camp]

I think this is a great question. 

It would be great to have a functionality which allows JIRA users to create stories and manually assign them to sprints, and visualize them in portfolio (grouped by epic color). Makes so much sense for teams which do not plan (all of) their work in releases.

[samrobertsofficial]

Hi @Stacy Anderson,

Portfolio for Jira currently only supports colouring issues by themes. Unfortunately at the moment you cannot colour by the Epic colour. 

You'll need to create some themes, then assign those themes to issues. You can learn about themes here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiraportfolioserver/themes-report-816527579.html - You can access the below panel in the top right section when viewing a plan. 

Additionally, if you are a Server customer, you can opt-in to the new experience which currently supports colouring by status, team, label. You can read more here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Portfolio-for-Jira-articles/Introducing-a-new-planning-experience-in-Portfolio-for-Jira/ba-p/944996

I will bring it up with the team that epic colour would be useful to add.

Let me know if you have any other questions, or if that didn't help. 

Thanks,

Sam