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Show or hide columns in your plan timeline

This page refers to the advanced planning features that are only available as part of Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise.

Fields from your work items display as columns in your plan. By default, you can view and edit:

  • Start date

  • Due date

  • Status

  • Dependencies (incoming and outgoing)

  • Priority

  • Team

  • Parent

  • Reporter

  • Component

  • Progress (work item count)

  • Progress (by status)

  • Release (if enabled)

  • Sprint (for plans containing scrum teams)

  • Estimate

  • Atlassian apps such as

    • Goals

    • Ideas

    • Focus areas

The plan owner can add other fields from projects as well. Except for fields from team-managed projects, you can view and edit these fields on all work items while viewing your plan, regardless of which project they belong to. To view changes made to a field in your plan, it needs to be included as part of the project settings.

Show or hide columns on your timeline

You can show or hide columns using the Add fields button on your timeline. Once open, you’ll see a list of the current columns visible on your timeline.

Add a field by selecting the Choose fields… dropdown menu. After this, the field will show in the Add fields menu.

You can reorder your columns by re-arranging the list of visible fields, or remove them by selecting the x next to it’s name.

Tips for column management

If you want to add a lot of columns to your timeline, you can drag the left or right edge of the column to resize it. You can also select the column header to collapse (or expand) it.

If you want to replace the timeline bars with more columns, select List next to View settings. More about the list in your plan

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