Roadmap Layout Feedback #39766
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I was attempting to use the Show and Hide Fields feature, but it did not appear to do anything. The documentation indicates this controls what is shown in the side panel, but it would be more useful to have fields shown as additional columns like the List view does. |
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@rileybroughten I have received an invite last night but it's not for the account/organization I applied for. Please could you change the org for me so I can start using the feature? |
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It would be AMAZING if you could assign an issue to more than one iteration. |
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Because we could add multiple date fields. So, in my opinion, it would be better if github team can show the interim dates in the gantt chart, something like this: |
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Nice work! It would be useful to be able to have some sort of shading or hatching for non-working days - or at the very least weekends. Since this timeline view is likely to be useful for visualizing the task data to non-expert users who want to answer questions like "how many working days is this expected to take" and "can we ship it before next Friday's demo?" Also a day indicator such as "Mo", "Tu", etc above the dates so that it's more obvious when a particular item is planned to be finished. We often have conversation with product owners who say things like "so will it be ready by next Thursday" and, as they are very visual learners, it would be nice to be able to show them this view. Right now the grid is a bit non-obvious 'at a glance', especially in dark mode (which is my default). Note the red boxes I have drawn around the otherwise invisible weekends. |
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It seems to be more visually appealing (if you're a weirdo like me) if the "dots" for the issue were aligned with the line for the current day column indicator. At the moment they are aligned to the left of the line. 🤪 The status circles even have a nice dot in the middle of them they could be aligned to. So, something like the following: |
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Is this feature ever going to be available to user accounts or just organization accounts? |
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Please add "months" as a duration for iterations. Use case: We'd like to create a coarse roadmap that just highlights which issue is planned for which quarter of the year. Having a "months" duration would make it easier to define a "Quarter" iteration to assign issues to, esp. as iterations get auto-numbered. In the current state, when choosing 12 weeks for a quarter, "Quarter 2" does not start exactly on April 1st. |
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what i thought would be a core feature is visual support of the issue hierarchy. using those "tracked by" and "tracks" fields in the roadmap view should enable things like:
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Someone already using roadmaps in a public project in a nice way? It always helps me to see how others use a new feature to understand what it is really capable of and how I could use it myself. Just leave the link in a comment here. |
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As I'm planning out the roadmap for my project over the next year, I'd love the ability to specify a duration for a task without assigning it a particular start/end date right away. In short, I've got a big list of tasks for the year and I know roughly how much time each task will take, but I don't know exactly when I want to start each task. I'd love to be able to just quickly populate the roadmap with a bunch of tasks and assign a duration to each task. Then I can just drag&drop tasks around on the timeline to determine the start/end dates automatically. For context, I'm coming from using Google Sheet's timeline view that has this option of specifying a start/end date or a duration. It would be nice to carry over the ability to optionally include or exclude weekends when using a duration instead of start/end date. |
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It would really cool if we could make the outline or background of an item change color based on the value of a custom date field. For example, being able to make the border of an item go red if today's date is greater than an "expected end date" would give viewers a vey quick indication of those items which were overdue. Currently it's tricky to visualize that kind of data... |
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The UX feels a bit non-ideal for roadmap items that don't contain very short titles. Previously we've named things in the roadmap titles like "Improved Venues Page" but we found that to be a bit vague and over time our roadmap would repeat the same topics so we've been trying more descriptive titles like "Expand venue pages to include additional information". This creates a lot of clipping and applies to things like iterations as well, using an approach very similar to Github's own public roadmap creates a lot of clipping within this view: Allowing resizing/toggling of the side panel would probably help, as well as maybe a better visual for items in which the title overruns the duration. |
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Hi! We have started to use roadmaps, a main purpose of it is to see the actual team workload for a given period. We have added a field for effort (in FTEs as a number) and use the Sum feature to show the total FTE by team (or whatever we filter by), problem is that it sums all issues (ongoing or future) but it would be awesome for it to sum only within the visible dates so we quickly see what the workload is at any given point. I have a separate table view and by filtering Planned or Ongoing issues I am able to get close to what we want, as I can know the current and future workload. Yet it is not exactly what we really want, what we would like is the workload at any month, quarter... by changing the time period we are observing. |
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I would like to understand if the projects planned for a team actually fit in their capacity. Perhaps this could be done via the the roadmap view? Given that issues would have a numerical field for measuring effort in days, weeks or months, I would like to be able to sum up the that effort across all the issues on the roadmap canvas and see the effort numbers for each week, month or a quarter of the timeline. Ideally, I would like the effort sum per priod to properly account for the situations when a project can span 2 months, but the effort is actually 1 month, so for each individual month this project would contribute with 0.5 person-month 🙄 |
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Another use case is for understanding the critical paths, for identifying the latest Start date and the earliest possible Target date for projects based on their effort estimates. For this In the roadmap view I would like to use the numeric field for defining the size of an item on the canvas. When rendering an issue on the project canvas, I would like to..
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I really wish we could include the repository name in the nodes of the roadmap layout. If I have a bunch of products with GH issues like "release 1.2.0" I cannot tell what GH repo each issue corresponds to. |
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To be honest, I tried to use the roadmap feature, and couldn't figure out how to actually use it. I can't understand why I can't just drag-and-drop issues onto the roadmap, and have it set the dates. Played with it for 10-15 minutes, as I'm looking for a Trello replacement and liked the idea of having everything in GitHub, but the user experience and UI is absolutely awful. The team would do well to leverage what Trello has done well. Projects feels like a system designed by engineers rather than product/ux designers. |
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Allow to have iteration PLUS start AND target fields columns. |
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Discussion #51482 raised the problem of needing to move multiple items on a roadmap, and there currently being no means to do so. @rileybroughten said they had moved the discussion to the more general roadmap feedback discussion (which I assume is this), but I can't find it on here. As far as I can tell this still isn't possible, but seems like something that would be incredibly commonly needed, and as with @timuric, who raised it originally, this is pretty much a blocker for us being able to use this feature. |
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Is there a way to enable markers by default. I'd always like to have the milestone markers visible. |
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Hi community. |
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It would be goof if the current day indicator automatically updated. I keep thinking I have more time left on a task than I actually do, because I go to my tab with the roadmap open, and see there are still several days left on a task. I then realise the red line indicating the current day hasn't moved on since I last loaded the page a few days ago, and I hit refresh, and things no longer look quite so on track. |
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Hi community. system requirementsOS: windows 11 reasonFirst of all, there are currently 5 ways to do horizontal scrolling in roadmap. (If there are others, please let me know)
However, all of these methods are a bit awkward to use.
Thank you for reading. |
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I would like to use the roadmap to know how long a project will take. For this I need to be able to set dependencies (2nd task can only be started when 1st task is finished, some can be done in parallel etc). Is there a way to generate these dependencies. Calculate start dates based on dependencies and calculate end date based on start date + expected time needed. |
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Thank you for trying the Roadmap layout in Projects! Check out the documentation for more information.
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions on how we can improve the experience, please share below.
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