These settings let you define the color that you want for those bar represents epics, tasks, etc. in the Gantt chart. You can choose what issues you want to change color using Jira’s JQL. You can learn more about JQL here.

Access color settings

You can access color settings by using either of the two ways below:

  1. From the Gantt list, click on the “Configure“ link of the Gantt you want to change color settings, then choose the “Colors” tab in the next screen.

  2. From inside the Gantt chart, click on the Cog icon (at the top-right corner) > Gantt configuration > Colors (on the left).

How to create a new color setting?

For children bars


For parent bars

You can follow similar steps when creating a color setting for children’s bars to create a setting for parent bars.

For baseline bar

Choose your preferred color for baseline by using Color picker and click on the checkmark button   to change color for the baseline bar. There can be only one color for the baseline.

If you want to reset the baseline color, you can do that by clicking on the reset button. The color of the baseline color will be reset to default color after that.

How to manage settings you’ve created?

All the settings you have created will be listed in their appropriated tab. From the list, you can edit, delete or change the setting’s priority.

Edit a setting

Delete a setting

Once you delete a setting, you can NOT undo it. That setting is gone forever.

Change priority

To increase the priority of a setting, click on the up arrow button to increase a setting’s priority. Otherwise, click on the down arrow button to lower a setting’s priority.