Public Roadmap

A public roadmap is a self-serve page that shows the proposals you have accepted from an idea bank, grouped into ordered columns such as Now, Next, and Later. Each proposal appears under the priority group its tags place it in, so participants can see what you are planning to build and roughly when. This page explains how to turn it on, configure its groups and subtitle, share it, and what participants see.

What is a public roadmap?

The roadmap is a read-only page that lists proposals you have marked as Accepted, organised into the priority groups you define. Participants see the idea-bank title, an optional subtitle, and each accepted proposal’s title, description, and the date it was accepted — grouped under headings like Now, Next, and Later. They never see scores, vote counts, comments, or any internal data.

The roadmap is off by default. Nothing is published until you explicitly enable it, and it is independent of the idea bank’s access level — you can publish a roadmap even on an internal idea bank, while proposals and voting stay private.

How do I enable a public roadmap?

Open the idea bank, then from the More menu choose Change Access Level. The dialog has a Public pages section below the access-level controls. Turn on Enable public roadmap.

The Change Access Level dialog with the Public pages section
The Public pages section is independent of the access level. Turn on Enable public roadmap, then use Configure to set the priority groups and subtitle.

How do I configure the groups and subtitle?

Next to the Enable public roadmap switch, click Configure. The configuration panel has two parts:

The roadmap groups accepted proposals by these tags: an accepted proposal tagged NOW appears under the Now group, one tagged NEXT under Next, and so on. Only the tags you whitelist here are shown as groups — accepted proposals that carry none of the listed tags are collected under an Other group at the end.

The roadmap configuration panel
Set the page subtitle and the ordered list of tag groups, then click Save. Use the arrows to reorder groups and Add to append a new tag.

Switching between the main panel and the Configure panel does not save on its own — a single Save stores the access level, moderation setting, and roadmap settings together. Back returns to the main panel without losing pending changes; Cancel on the main panel discards everything.

How do I share the roadmap?

Once the roadmap is enabled, the Share with panelists section shows a Roadmap URL row with a Copy button. Copy it and share it like any other participant link. If the idea bank also has participant voting or a changelog, those rows are shown above it; on an internal idea bank only the enabled public-page rows appear.

The Share with panelists section with a Roadmap URL row
Each enabled public page has its own URL row with a Copy button. The Roadmap row appears only when the roadmap is enabled.

For convenience, the idea bank’s More menu also has a Copy Roadmap URL entry, shown only when the roadmap is enabled.

The More menu showing Copy Roadmap URL
Copy Roadmap URL is a shortcut to the same link shown in the Share with panelists section.

What do participants see?

Opening the roadmap link shows the idea-bank title, the optional subtitle, and the accepted proposals grouped under your priority headings, in the order you configured. Each entry shows the proposal’s title, its description (rendered from Markdown), and the date it was accepted, formatted in the participant’s own locale. Accepted proposals without any of the whitelisted tags appear under an Other group. There are no votes, scores, or comments on this page.

When the same idea bank also has participant voting or a changelog available, the roadmap shows links so participants can move straight to the voting page or the changelog using the same link.

The public roadmap page participants see
Participants see accepted proposals grouped under your priority headings, each with the date it was accepted — plus links to the voting and changelog pages when those are available.

How do proposals get onto the roadmap?

A proposal appears on the roadmap when you set its status to Accepted and it carries one of the whitelisted tags (or it lands in the Other group if it carries none). See Proposal statuses for how to move proposals through their lifecycle, and tag a proposal to control which group it appears under. Move a proposal between groups by changing its tags; mark it Implemented to move it from the roadmap onto the changelog instead.

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