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Roadmap Planning Template - Sync colors between Timeline and Table view

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    Marieke
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  • Soumyadeep Mandal
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Consider adding a way to reflect item colors, which indicate the owning project, in the table view. This would help reduce duplicate work when assigning colors/projects in both the Timeline and Table views and prevent inconsistencies between the two.

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  • Eca
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  • March 29, 2025

Hi ​@Erik M.,

Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this idea. Our team will review this and it’s open for votes and comments. 

For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for you or your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request!

Thank you again for helping make Miro better!

Eca :)
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My suggestion on potential implementations:

 

  1. Add a column option to the table view to be able to update the color from that view.
  2. Add an option in the timeline view to select a “style source” at the top (in area near filter/groups/sort).
    1. This view will let you pick from available ‘select’ columns.
    2. The color template applied to the value of the row will apply to the item in the timeline.
    3. Have one of the ‘style source’ options also be the standard color option that you can now control from the table view, too :-)

Reasoning:
This provides HUGE flexibility in how to view data. One team wants to see tasks grouped by project, but with coloration based on status? Done. Another teams wants the tasks grouped by team, but colored based on the project? Also Done.

Bonus Points - an option that allows the item to have a border based on one style, and a fill/text based on another. 🤯

More bonus points - also be able to give the item an icon/color dot based on a column Value :-)

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  • Erik M.
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  • April 25, 2025
Steven Dove wrote:

My suggestion on potential implementations:

 

  1. Add a column option to the table view to be able to update the color from that view.
  2. Add an option in the timeline view to select a “style source” at the top (in area near filter/groups/sort).
    1. This view will let you pick from available ‘select’ columns.
    2. The color template applied to the value of the row will apply to the item in the timeline.
    3. Have one of the ‘style source’ options also be the standard color option that you can now control from the table view, too :-)

Reasoning:
This provides HUGE flexibility in how to view data. One team wants to see tasks grouped by project, but with coloration based on status? Done. Another teams wants the tasks grouped by team, but colored based on the project? Also Done.

Bonus Points - an option that allows the item to have a border based on one style, and a fill/text based on another. 🤯

More bonus points - also be able to give the item an icon/color dot based on a column Value :-)

I cannot figure out how to “Add an option in the timeline view to select a “style source””, any pointers?

 

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  • April 30, 2025
Steven Dove wrote:

My suggestion on potential implementations:

 

  1. Add a column option to the table view to be able to update the color from that view.
  2. Add an option in the timeline view to select a “style source” at the top (in area near filter/groups/sort).
    1. This view will let you pick from available ‘select’ columns.
    2. The color template applied to the value of the row will apply to the item in the timeline.
    3. Have one of the ‘style source’ options also be the standard color option that you can now control from the table view, too :-)

Reasoning:
This provides HUGE flexibility in how to view data. One team wants to see tasks grouped by project, but with coloration based on status? Done. Another teams wants the tasks grouped by team, but colored based on the project? Also Done.

Bonus Points - an option that allows the item to have a border based on one style, and a fill/text based on another. 🤯

More bonus points - also be able to give the item an icon/color dot based on a column Value :-)

Would really like to see this implemented, especially something like Steven’s second suggestion - this would allow great flexibility on which field to use to color the timeline tasks. Trying out timeline for the first time, and this is one of the big things I’m seeing missing from it (along with dependencies, a summary timeline bar for grouped tasks, and setting minimum column width for the time durations). 

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