What would you be replacing the Label gadget with? Or will it be completely removed in its entirety? These have been useful and necessary for filtering within a given client's project. Our company supports multiple clients and their active projects.
We use labels to differentiate active 'projects' under a client. It then helps with creating filters for individual boards set up under a given client project.
Without a label - support items can't be easily filtered and boards using these labels would need to be updated with fields?
First of all, thank you for extending the timeline for the end of life of "Jira Roadmap"
I still stand by what I said though and extending the timeline and opening a new blog won't change that.
It is really a disappointment that you stop the support for the Gadget "Jira Road Map" As far as I can see you are NOT offering a real alternative that would show the same as before. Unfortunately "Timeline" does not seem work as a gadget on a Dashboard which is an absolute must for us.
We have used road map for years now and it provided the whole staff with a short overview of all upcoming releases.
THAT is what we need.
I would appreciate it if you could come up with a proper alternative or replacement for "Jira Road Map"
I use the Project gadget all the time to jump to projects from my main dashboard. I don't see that there is a replacement for it and I will definitely miss it!
Really disappointed and confused about how this decision was made. Was it due to budget constraints? Such important and frequently used features have been removed. Has there been any communication regarding how to manage workflows after these features are deleted: Jira Road Map, Bubble Chart, Heat Map, Projects, and Labels gadgets.
Ridiculous decision to entirely delete the Roadmap gadget, as is reflected in almost all of the comments on this blog (and, apparently, the original blog which has been removed). How do you justify removing something that is clearly of such utility to your clients?
Hi Atlassian, can you clarify the actual reason for retiring these dashboard gadgets? Is it because a security issue, or are they incompatible with new jira features???
Now there is literally no way to condense project highlights to give an executive view. Going into each project to view timeline is not a great option. Make timeline available in dashboard and let it condense all projects with customizable views.
I think Atlassian should recognize the fact that these gadgets may very well be used by not only Jira-savvy users but also "regular" end-users, and so changing them requires proper organizational implementation and communication. For many organizations, this may not be a trivial thing.
Therefore we definitely need a clear migration path for each gadget so we know what to substitute it with, and thus what to communicate to end-users.
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Hi @Ella Hilton I am messaging you because you are mentioned as an Atlassian Team member here :) Can you please advise where / how I can make a request about one of these gadgets being removed?
The "Projects" gadget is more valuable than what the "Issue Statistics" replacement provides.
I primarily use the "Projects" to take me immediately to the Board (for our Agile projects) or to the Queue (for the Service Desk projects).
The "Issue Statistics" replacement described for the Projects doesn't provide this same benefit at all.
I tried to use the described replacement for a few weeks now - but it just doesn't help me at all.
Is there a different way to link directly to specific project boards/queues from the Dashboard? I use these links multiple times a day to go directly to the board or queue to see what my team is working on.
I also like how compact the current Projects gadget is - I can link to multiple projects without having to have extra details displaying on the dashboard.
It makes no sense to remove the Projects gadget without having a similar gadget that provides that information. Very disappointing. As a new Jira user, I'm frustrated that this functionality is going away, as it was one of the main reasons we adopted Jira, to track our projects.
Please, please keep the Bubble gadget - it's essential for my team to quickly identify issues needing attention. Being able to visualize the interaction between days open, number of comments, and participants is extremely helpful. I also use Heat Map but Bubble is really important to my work!
How do you not see the massive difference between the widget example you gave?
Imagine you have N releases that you want to show. The Roadmap shows them all within a small pane and all of the info you need is there to see how "green or red" the release is. You want to dive in deeper? CLICK.
Maybe show comparable examples: Say 8-10 Releases in the RoadMap widget. And 8-10 releases in the timeline widget. IN the SAME dashboard widget space.
The new widget is a view you would expect from CLICKING. Not as a summary.
The fact that you all look at those two widgets and say: "SAME INFO! SAME COGNITIVE LOAD! SAME DASHBOARD SPACE USAGE!" makes us all think you are off your rockers and have been micro dosing far far too much. Maybe even on the Ketamine train. In what would would you put the two widgets side by side and say: YUP! These are equivalent in their usage.
Have been using the Jira Road Map gadget for years for many companies as Management always want to see how much has been done for epics or features or initiatives or all.
So at the current company I am working, we have Jira cloud and we are using the Timeline / Plans but it doesn't show how much of the epic has been done, in progress or to do. There is no 'bar' showing progress as per your screen shot above.
So how are we to see the progress? As will have no gadget for dashboard and the plans/timeline doesn't show it.
Timeline is project-specific. Roadmap allows an overview of all the releases in one view
Timeline view is not a replacement for the Roadmap Gadget. Timeline has a different purpose I'm not sure how and why you guys decided it is a substitute replacement for the roadmap?
We all know why they are doing this. They are removing any possible alternatives to their more premium version. Someone high up is probably asking "Why is noone using plans". Someone down the food chain is suggesting "Well they can get cross project information from the Roadmap widget might be a possible reason". "Why are we supporting something that competes with what we are trying to sell. We want all our customers using plans. We don't care about those customers that pay less (or really don't have the budget for it.". This wont change because someone is always asking how can we make more money. I have contemplated switching so many times to another project management tool because I constantly feel like I am getting nickle and dimed on this extremely expensive project management tool.
As other people have mentioned, the suggested replacement for the Jira Roadmap gadget does not provide the same information. My team works on multiple projects and typically has 4-5 projects with releases per sprint. We use the Roadmap gadget to quickly check whether the upcoming releases are on track to be completed by the release date. Our release engineers also use the Roadmap gadget to determine which releases are ready on release day. At a baseline we need the project name, version, release date and ticket resolution status grouped together in a glanceable format.
While I would obviously prefer this information on my dashboard, I have noticed that the board Calendar also shows the upcoming releases by release version for all the issues covered by the board filter. However currently we would have to click on each release version in the Calendar to see the project name and percentage issue completion. If the board Calendar could be configured to also show the project name/key and the % issue completion (or N/M resolved) next to the version, then we would at least have access to the same information as the Roadmap gadget in a glanceable format.
Extended timeline: We're no longer supporting five of your gadgets starting May 2025
Starting May 2025, we're removing the functionality of the Jira Road Map, Bubble Chart, Heat Map, Projects, and Labels gadgets. If you don't delete them before then, they'll no longer work, and you won't be able to reference them for the available alternatives.More about the gadgets and the extended timeline
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