Roadmap view: your board as a Gantt timeline
Roadmap is one of a board's view types, alongside Board and Dashboard — it lays that board's own groups and rows out on a time axis. Give a row a Size and the timeline schedules it for you; drag a bar and it stays exactly where you put it.
Rows scheduled sequentially per assignee lane, with a today line.
What it does, and where the data comes from
The Roadmap view reads the same groups and rows as the board's Board view — nothing lives only on the timeline. Rows schedule by walking each group in board order, one assignee lane at a time: the first row in a lane starts on the Roadmap's Start date, and every later row for that assignee picks up where the previous one ends. Give a row a Size (from the board's Size column) and its width comes from that size's configured week count; give it no size, duration, or dates at all and it falls back to a default width and renders with diagonal stripes, so an estimate never looks identical to a decision.
Views in general — Board, Dashboard, Roadmap — are covered in Board views; this page is about the Roadmap type specifically.
How to configure the timeline
- Settings — top-right of the Roadmap view, for anyone who can edit the board.
- Start date — where the first unpinned row in each lane schedules from.
- Visible quarters — 1 to 40; the timeline header also carries a quick 1 year / 2 years shortcut for the common cases.
- Size durations (weeks) — one number per size label, XXS through XXL, so an M doesn't mean the same number of weeks on every board.
- Groups — a checkbox per group; unchecking one hides its lane without removing anything from the board.
Under the hood
Dragging a bar — or resizing its right edge — gives that row an explicit start date (and, if you resize, an end date too). From then on the row is "pinned": it stops following the sequential chain, so editing an earlier row in the same lane no longer shifts it. Unpinned rows keep auto-scheduling off each other, which is why moving or resizing one row can visibly shift everything after it in that assignee's lane — that's the schedule recomputing, not a bug.
If it looks wrong
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| A row won't move when an earlier one in its lane shifts | It has an explicit date — dragging or resizing pins a row | Clear its dates if you want it to auto-schedule again |
| A bar is striped | No Size, duration, or explicit dates — the fallback week count is being used | Set a Size on the row |
| A whole lane is missing | Its group is unchecked in Settings | Open Settings and re-enable the group |
| The timeline stops mid-quarter | Visible quarters is set too low for the scheduled work | Raise Visible quarters in Settings |
Related
- Standalone roadmaps — a roadmap as its own entity, pulling groups from any board.
- Board views — Board, Dashboard, and Roadmap, and how to switch between them.
- System and custom fields — where the Size column and its labels come from.
- Groups and rows — the board data the Roadmap view schedules.
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