Issues Timeline

The Issues Timeline template provides a timeline for managing issues and versions within your Jira projects on a timeline, with swimlanes organized by environment.

This template is particularly useful for the following scenarios:

Deployment Scheduling: This template is ideal for planning and visualizing the schedule of deployments (for instance Deployment Request issue types) across various Environments. It helps teams coordinate release times, ensuring that deployments are staggered to minimize disruption and manage dependencies.
Maintenance Window Coordination: By using the timeline with swimlanes by Environment, teams can plan and view upcoming maintenance activities. This visualization helps avoiding conflicts, ensuring that maintenance across different Environments doesn't overlap, and that system availability is optimized.

Example

Set up the Issues Timeline Template

To set up the Issues Timeline template, follow these steps:

Open Golive.
Within Golive, locate and click the View Browser.
From the dropdown menu, select + Create View.
From the options provided, select the Issues Timeline template.
Select a Project.
Select an Issue Type.
Select the issue fields to use as event Start date, End date and Environment(s).
Select the Most important fields to display - These fields will be displayed in your event dialogs.
If you need to add another issue type on your View, click + Issue Type and restart from the step 8 above.
Define the Zoom timeline on this date range. Upon opening the Timeline, the start and end dates are automatically calculated.

Click the calendar icon to select durations, or add Units (y, M, w, h) in the fields, for example:

-2w denotes a date 2 weeks ago.
4M2w denotes a date 4 months and 2 weeks from now.

Click Create to generate the View.

The newly created View based on the Issues Timeline template will be added to the View Browser.