Once you've chosen the items to include in a slice (based on Issue Type or a JQL query), you can adjust various aspects of their appearance or behavior by clicking the Add Section menu and selecting the properties you want to customize.


The following properties can be customized for each slice:

You can include as many or as few sections in your slice configuration as you need. If you do not specify a custom property within your slice configuration, the default configuration will be used.

Work Estimates

By updating this section, you can apply custom work estimates to any issues matching your slice criteria.

Adding a Custom Work Estimate

In the example above, time estimates for issues in "Project A" will be calculated based on Story Points, regardless of what the default configuration is for other projects.

To learn more about setting work estimates, see Work Estimates Configuration.

Progress Calculation

You can specify a unique method of progress calculation for issues within the slice.

Slice - Progress Calculation

For more information about configuring progress calculation, see Progress Configuration.


Manual Scheduling

The Manual Scheduling section allows you to override the default scheduling configuration. This can be useful if you have multiple fields for scheduling information or need to prioritize different scheduling methods (automatic, manual or sprint-based) for different sets of issues, or if different teams use different fields for scheduling.

Configure custom scheduling

To learn more about manual scheduling, see Manual Scheduling Configuration.

Dependencies

You can set up custom link types to be used with each type of dependency within your slice.

To set a default link type for a dependency type, check the Favorite box.

Slice - Dependencies


Adding custom dependencies


To learn more about using dependencies, see Working with Dependencies. To learn more about configuring dependencies, see Dependencies Configuration.

If you are linking two issues with different dependency link types (because one or both issues are part of a slice), the link types of the originating issue will be used.

Lead/Lag Times

You can also set up custom Lead or Lag times for each dependency type within your slice.

To learn more, see Dependency Lead/Lag Time.

If you are linking two issues with different lead/lag times (because one or both issues are part of a slice), the link types of the originating issue will be used.

Resource Assignment

You can set a unique resource attribute, which is used to assign resources to tasks.

Assign custom resources

To learn more about resource assignment, see Resources Configuration.

Max Units

You can configure unique maximum unit settings to customize how resources are allocated for tasks.

add a custom max units

To learn more about Max Units, seeĀ Resources Configuration

Leveling Priority

This section allows you to set customĀ leveling priorities.

Custom leveling priority

To learn more about leveling priorities, see Resource Leveling.

Appearance

You can create a custom color scheme for each slice, under the Appearance section.

Slice - Appearance Color

The color scheme you select will be applied to all issues or milestones that match the slice criteria.

Item Behavior

Item Behavior allows you to specify the type of item an issue will be displayed as within your Gantt chart.

Add custom behavior

You can choose from the following options: