Is there a way to put story point field in the "Timeline" section of JIRA?

[Sherwin Soriano]

I am currently exploring the premium side of JIRA - Timeline and I noticed that when I am adding specific fields, story point field seem to be unsupported (See Image below).

Is this by design or there is something that I need to configure for this field?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Sherwin Soriano 

What types of projects are sources for your Plan? Get the project Type information from the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

Is the Story points field in use in the issues that are included in the Plan?

[Sherwin Soriano]

@Trudy Claspill Yes we use story point field on the projects that are configured in the sources of the plan

[Trudy Claspill]

What are the project types of the projects included in the Plan?

[Sherwin Soriano]

company managed projects

[Trudy Claspill]

Is the plan explicitly and only using Projects as Sources?

Is it using Boards or Filters as sources?

[Sherwin Soriano]

I assume you are referring to "Issue Sources" in the Plan settings, if Yes, the inputs are combination of "Boards" and "Project".

Should it only either all boards or all projects?

[Trudy Claspill]

It does not necessarily need to be only projects or boards.

Boards are based on Filters. What are the filters that the boards use?

If any of the filters are constructed such that they do not explicitly reference projects, then Jira will evaluate the board filter to mean all projects in the instance should be considered.

I ask these questions to confirm that only Company Managed projects are included in the plan scope.

[Sherwin Soriano]

the filters are specific to a project, meaning our sources have 10 boards, 10 filters, specific to 1 project at a time.

[Trudy Claspill]

I just realized that my brain was not processing the image you provided correctly. My brain was thinking that was the Timeline view itself where you can add fields. But the image you provided is actually from the Plan Settings / Custom Fields.

You do not need to add Story points to that configuration page in order to be able to add it as a Field in the Timeline view. It is available in the Timeline view by default.

The Story point estimates field is specific to Team Managed projects, not Company Managed projects, so the lack of support for it is not relevant to your specific scenario.