I agree with the discontent about the Roadmap gadget being removed. This is core to our dashboards, and having to go elsewhere is a reduced experience, the purpose of the dashboard is to compile all the relevant information in a single view.
A truly horrible Product decision. These are some of the most useful and long-lived gadgets that exist on most of my team's boards.... TF is Atlassian thinking?
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Bubble map is literally one of the main reasons to put things on a dashboard. This smells of 'computationally hard' and an engineering team persuading the rest of Atlassian team to do away with a feature to make their life easier. Really poor show, Atlassian.
I've not seen any updates on the current trial of the new dashboards that will reside within each project. Is there a timeline of when those will rollout? Would be great to know since we are reconfiguring our current dashboards to adjust for the deprecation of the mentioned gadgets. Thanks!
If it is in relation to this feature and you're not seeing it on your instance, feel free to email me at lsutherland@atlassian.com and I can investigate this.
With the removal of labels gadget how are we supposed to track/group like tickets by tags? I use labels to tag similar ticket into groups, without that gadget I don't know how to group and find them easily.
@Lisa The issue with the Summary page, although pretty, is that you cannot apply filters to what it is representing. So I can't restrict the results to a date range, an issue type, a release vs. sprint etc. If you make the summary more flexible, it may be adopted better vs. a useless page.
As you can see from the comments, we are concerned that this decision was not considering the best interests of your customers.
@Lisa The summary view that you have commented on here - is this meant to be some kind of replacement for the functionality (eg roadmap) that is being taken away? If so, it seems very limited and very lacking in providing anything even close? - Or is this simply another feature, unrelated to the dashboard gadgets that are being removed?
Also, when will we be likely to hear about the viable alternatives? - Particularly for the roadmap gadget?
I've simply never seen a business be so absolutely tone-deaf to repeated, valid, concerns from customers.
Over and over again, customers keep reporting that there's NO viable replacement planned for the tag and roadmap widgets, and all we hear from Jira is the equivalent "the droids you're looking for are over here - trust us, stop fighting this, just get comfortable with having functionality you depend upon removed, as we're not budging on this."
The tone-deafness I'm seeing here has caused me to actually start looking at Jira alternatives.
and don't forget that if it was only replaced by a really equivalent gadget, customers would have to spend time (so money) to modify their dashboard configuration, etc.
but here we don't even have a good replacement solution. I've shown to my team the gadget "Issue Statistics" used to replace the "heat map" (which was clearly not perfect) ... i wont write here the words they said, but it's really a big regression for the data analyst and the people who use these gadgets to sort their tickets ...
it's interesting to receive each week the email "Atlassian Cloud changes", but it would be really better if there was much less changes in this email and if you listened a little more to your customers.
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Please reconsider removal of the Projects gadget - or how we are expected to replace it.
The issue statistics doesn't get the same job done - it takes me to a filter of issues which is meaningless to me. The current Projects gadget takes me to the current Board or Queue (depending on if I am in a Kanban or Service Desk project). The boards and queues are something that I need to visit every day, multiple times a day.
The projects gadget is the perfect short cut to get to these places. Going to a filter of open issues doesn't fulfill the same need.
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The issue statistics does not give the same result as the Projects gadget. And there is no Timeline gadget at least on Standard plan, to even check if it would be of any use.
Like other comments, please do not remove these gadgets, if you do not have alternatives that do the same thing.
The app also allows you to view your project issue hierarchy in a tree view. You can view %complete progress at each parent level. It roll ups the time tracking fields, story point or numeric fields at each parent level. The app can be added to a dashboard as well.
If someone would like to keep getting updates to the Heat Map, Projects, Roadmap, Labels gadgets - you can install the app I developed which contains all these gadgets in one app. The UX is the same. The UI is updated.
Additional features to the standard behaviour:
Heatmap now has several font-sizes for tokens/elements. Simply put, this bug is fixed.
Roadmap now can display all the releases, even those which don't have release dates or versions.
Labels now can display data for any number of projects, not just for one.
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