Create crystal clear, modern Timeline plans for a single project or entire portfolios. Detect capacity issues and blockers early, to craft plans that execute perfectly.
Combine multiple projects from Jira, Asana, and Salesforce into portfolio level timelines. Visor’s two-way integrations keep your apps in sync to preserve a single source of truth.
Visualize multiple projects on one timeline to see the big picture. Optimize the allocation of time and resources across your organization, to ensure work flows smoothly.
Connect Visor to popular SaaS apps or input your project data directly into Visor.
Import nested Jira data (e.g., Epics, Stories/Tasks) in minutes. Visor maintains your data’s structure, allowing you to visualize project plans and push out edits.
Visor pays attention to the details, treating your data exactly as Salesforce does. Import and edit your data, including dropdown field selections and contact names.
Connect, visualize, and update Asana projects including sub-tasks and custom fields. Easily make bulk edits and connect with project data from other apps.
Configurable swimlanes enable you to group tasks and projects based on any criteria. Understand where each team members’ tasks overlap, view initiatives across projects, and more.
Custom conditional formatting enables you to use visual cues so key data can be identified and understood faster. It also makes your shared views look great, and more engaging for stakeholders.
Visor offers Gantt charts, spreadsheets, dashboards, and capacity-planning charts. Transform your Timeline data into other helpful visualizations. Maximize your project management options and be equipped for every scenario.
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Visor Timeline Visualization FAQs
What makes Visor’s Timeline View better than other apps?
Visor’s Timeline View enables you to easily manage complex timelines, including those across multiple projects and products. You can import your project data from apps like Jira, Asana, and Salesforce to create a holistic view of your organizational or portfolio plans.
This data stays in sync with your apps so that your Timeline visualizations in Visor stay fresh and up-to-date with the latest changes to plans and tasks. You can also sync updates from Visor back into your apps too, ensuring a single source of truth at all times.
Visor views also look beautiful, and you can utilize the full potential of color communication to make your plans crystal clear and ensure they resonate with stakeholders at first sight, every time.
Can I connect Visor to apps like Jira, Asana, and Salesforce?
Yes, you can import as many projects as you need to from Jira, Asana, and Salesforce. You can create single project visualizations, or combine multiple projects into views of project portfolios. You can combine projects from a single app, such as Jira, or multiple apps.
Visor’s two-way integrations keep your Visor visualizations in sync with all the apps you’ve decided to integrate with Visor.
How do I share my Timelines with other people?
Timeline Views that you create in Visor can be shared via an email invitation, or using sharable links. These links can be used on a continuous basis which makes sharing easy. Visor includes unlimited view-only licenses so that sharing your views is easy and economical.
Is there a charge to share with others?
No, a Visor Team or Business plan gives you unlimited view-only access, so that you can share your real-time Timeline visualizations with colleagues and stakeholders for free.
Can I use create project portfolio timeline visualizations that combine multiple projects?
Yes, you can use Visor’s Timeline view that contain multiple projects, including projects from apps like Jira and Asana.
You can group these portfolio timelines using swimlanes based on any field, including additional fields you’ve created in Visor to help categorize projects, for example strategic program, size, product, or any other criteria you want.
Can I use advanced/combined filters on timeline visualizations in Visor?
Yes, in timeline visualizations in Visor, you can apply multiple filters using “AND” or “OR” logic to create advanced or combined filters (sometimes also known as compound filters) to drill down further into your data and create more precise timelines for different audiences, stakeholders, or analytical tasks.
What color coding options do I have?
You can use any color scheme you want on your Timeline. Choose from a selection of pre-sets, or create your own color palette using color sliders or Hex codes. Keep things on-brand, or unique. In Visor you can make your project or portfolio Timeline match your vision because the color coding options are truly limitless.
What timescale options can I select for my timeline in Visor?
In Visor’s Timeline visualization, you can choose to show your Timeline in:
Weeks & Days
Sprints & Days
Months & Days
Months & Weeks
Quarters & Weeks
Quarters & Months
Years & Months
Each of these timescales has further options, such as days of the week you wish to include (for the team’s working days) or exclude, as well as sprint lengths, giving you greater flexibility over the display of your Timeline.
Switching or adjusting the timescale shown on any timeline is easy, enabling you to zoom in and out as required. You can also create and share versions of your project or portfolio timelines with different timescales.
Is Timeline View the only project view available in Visor?
No! In Visor you can also create Kanban boards, Gantt charts, Dashboards, and Table views, all based on the same project data. These views of your project all stay in sync so you can plan, manage, track, and measure progress in a range of formats and select the one that best fits your particular need at that time. View all features and views types.
Can I add swimlanes to Timeline visualizations I create in Visor?
Yes, you can easily add swimlanes to your Visor Timeline visualizations; the Timeline view setup wizard in Visor asks you whether you want to add swimlanes to your Timeline and which field you would like to use as the swimlanes. You can also add swimlanes and change the swimlane field directly from the Timeline view in Visor at any time.
What fields can I use to define swimlanes in Visor’s Timeline visualization tool?
You can use any dropdown field to define your swimlanes in a Timeline visualization in Visor, giving you maximum flexibility in organizing and visualizing your projects and portfolios of projects.
Popular examples of swimlane fields used in Visor timeline visualizations include:
Assignee
Status
Project (for portfolio management)
Strategic goal
Initiative or epic
Project manager
Product
Business area
Can I add rows to timelines in addition to swimlanes?
Yes, in addition to swimlanes, you can also add rows inside swimlanes to add an extra layer of data organization to your timeline visualizations. For example, you could create a timeline with these combinations of swimlanes and rows:
Swimlanes for initiatives and rows for epics
Swimlanes for project manager and rows for assignees
Swimlanes for sub-portfolio or strategic goals, and rows for projects
Swimlanes for products and rows for features
Can I create different Timeline visualizations of a project or portfolio, for different stakeholders or teams?
Yes, in Visor, it is easy to create multiple Timeline visualizations of the same project or portfolio of projects so that you can share views with different:
Focuses
Timeframes
Level of detail (e.g. project and initiative level, as opposed to task and subtask level)
Data (e.g., excluding specific teams, tasks, details, or other data points you want to hide or show)
This makes it easy to create different views of the same project or portfolio for different:
Teams
Stakeholders
Audiences
Purposes/tasks (for example, portfolio review meetings vs. project planning activities)
Each visualization uses the same real-time data from Visor or connected apps like Jira and Asana, so all visualizations stay current without needing manual updates.
Verified Visor Reviews:
“I was looking for a way to link Gantt charts to our Jira projects, but this allows me to do so much more.”
Nick B., Atlassian Reviewer
“I’ve tried just about every roadmapping platform you can think of and Visor is the first one that allows me to roadmap at both the epic and story/issue level.”
Kemper R., Atlassian Reviewer
“The integration with Jira allows for you to keep a central truth center, but still handle the many use cases teams have for roadmapping and backlog planning.”
Gabby C., Atlassian Reviewer
“Visor for JIRA enhances collaboration and project planning with its intuitive interface and integrated Gantt chart feature.”
Shruti P., Atlassian reviewer
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