Schedule work for kanban teams on your timeline
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By default, your timeline doesn’t show schedule bars for child issues when planning in Kanban. In order to use it, an administrator must first enable and configure it. Learn how to enable this feature in your roadmap.
On the timeline, issues belonging to Kanban teams are scheduled using the Start date and Due date fields. The schedule bars align to the dates in those fields, and these dates are also used when rolling up values to parent issues.
You can schedule kanban issues on your timeline in either of the following ways:
Schedule work items using the Start date and Due date fields
Ensure that the Start date and Due date fields are visible in your work item.
Select the work item that you wish to schedule from the Work items column, which will open the side info panel.
Find the Start date and Due date fields in the work item panel, and change the dates.
Schedule work items using the schedule bars
From your timeline view, place the schedule bar where you’d like. The default duration of work items depends on the timeframe setting on your timeline. If your timeline is set to:
Weeks - your work items will be 7 days long.
Months - your work items will be 14 days long.
Quarters - your work items will be 30 days long.
Drag either end of the schedule bar to change the start or end date.
Alternatively, you can right-click on the schedule bar to open the Change dates menu, then select Remove start date, Remove due date, or Clear both dates.
Rearrange work items
To rearrange work items on your timeline view, simply drag and drop them into your desired locations. There are a couple of different reasons you might want to change your work item order:
you want to change an work item’s ranking relative to work items of the same type
you want to assign a child work item to a new parent
These changes in your timeline are saved to your Jira work items in real-time.
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