Can I Add milestiones in the Timeline or List View?
Asked by Marco Rodrigues:

As a PM I want to define a specific issue type (e.g Story ) as a milestone, so that I can follow the major achievements during a project. How can I apply that in the list view and timeline view?


Answers:
author: John Funk
body: Hi Marco,

So is your question how to add an Issue Type to the project?

comments: author: Marco Rodrigues
body: Hi John,

My question is how to add milestones in a project. Can you help me with that?


author: John Funk
body: That depends on what you mean by milestones. That is not a built in function of the projects. How would you expect this to function?


author: Marco Rodrigues
body: From my perspective I was hoping to define a specific completed task as a Milestone. Is that possible in the Timeline View?


author: John Funk
body: I would create an issue type called Milestone and use that.


author: Curt Holley
body: Based on what I'm reading here, what you want is what [@John Funk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7148) alluded to in his opening question.

You should create (or arrange to have created by your Admin) an issues type called Milestone. Then you will be able to view it in any view of the JWM or Jira Software project it is added to.

In JWM, it will have to have the same workflow as everything else,

You would be able to filter your Timeline view by Issue type = Milestone to only see the Milestones etc...


author: J Conners
body: If Jira Work Management is meant to be a lightweight project management tool, it seems odd that milestones wouldn't be available as an issue type out of the box.


author: Nataliya Vasyliv_Reliex_
body: Hi [@Marco Rodrigues](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4455760)

to find a specific completed task as a Milestone you can try [Activitytimeline](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220860/activity-timeline-resource-planning-time-tracking?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_source=marketplace&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=comments) add-on. There you can add Milestone to a timeline and use for all or for one specific project. ![2021-10-19_19h37_19.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/165699iA8CA93B5A221FE3A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-10-19_19h37_19.png")


author: Jane Yeoh
body: Hi [@Marco Rodrigues](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4455760)

I'm Jane, one of the Product Managers on the Jira Work Management team. We're looking to explore Milestones in Jira Work Management and we'd love to hear your feedback on some of our design concepts.

If you're interested, please feel free to book in a session with me in my calendar where we will be sharing prototypes for this concept: <https://calendly.com/jyeoh/45min> and getting a better understanding of your needs as well.

Looking forward to chatting,

Jane

comments: author: John Funk
body: Hey Jane - did you get some good feedback?


author: Jane Yeoh
body: Hey [@John Funk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7148) ,

We're still running these this week, but we've gotten good feedback so far, thanks for asking!


author: John Funk
body: Great!


author: Valerie Blondel
body: Hi [@Jane Yeoh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3613944)

I just found this post about your exploring Milestones in Jira Work Management. Would you mind advising if any progress ? We wish we had the possibility to use those in the Timeline view. Thanks beforehand, Val?rie


author: Jess Sherrington
body: eager to see progress also!


author: Bryant Eadon
body: I think the best way to track a milestone is by selectign an EPIC and using this as the milestone. Or, Version.

This avoids adding additional junk to JIRA.

Additionally, advanced JIRA features add higher level concepts to which I believe may have higher-level cross-project tracking you might want.


author: Adam _SoftwarePlant_
body: Hello [@Marco Rodrigues](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4455760)

Taking into consideration your requirements, I believe that you may want to give some of the apps from the Atlassian marketplace a try - like [BigPicture/BigGantt](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1212259/bigpicture-project-management-ppm?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) for example, developed by Softwareplant (A company I am also a part of). Those will help you organize your work better, manage your work across multiple Jira projects on one screen, and also use the mentioned Milestones functionality so that you can easily track those important moments in your project:

![Gantt module.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/161250iFAA69B59307FD1C8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Gantt module.png")

![milestones.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/161251i17AAD8E1009E9328/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "milestones.png")

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Adam


author: Maria
body: Hi [@Marco Rodrigues](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4455760)   
Just in case you're open to trying add-ons, on behalf of the Planyway team I'd like to recommend [Planyway](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221297/planyway-resource-planning-project-roadmap-time-tracking?tab=overview&utm_campaign=atlassianquestions&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=atlassiancommunity&hosting=cloud). You can add [Milestones](https://planyway.com/jira/help/getting-started-guide/planyway-for-jira-cloud-guide#milestones) to your projects and see them across multiple projects on one timeline in Planyway. If any questions, I'm here to help.