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How to hide cards on your public roadmap

Choose which Jira Product Discovery cards appear on your Released Hub roadmap using a checkbox field and a JQL filter, including ideas where the field is unset.

By Jens Schumacher Published Updated 5 min read

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Customers can follow your product plans without seeing every idea in Jira. Internal improvements, technical work and confidential plans may need to stay off the public roadmap.

This guide shows how to use a checkbox field in Jira Product Discovery and a filter in Released Hub to choose which cards appear. It also explains how to handle ideas where the checkbox has never been set.

If you are setting up a customer roadmap for the first time, start with how to share your Jira roadmap with customers.

  1. Step 1 Add a checkbox field in Jira Product Discovery

    Add a custom Checkbox field to your Jira Product Discovery project and name it Hide from public roadmap. Check it on the ideas you want to leave off the public roadmap.

  2. Step 2 Filter the cards in Released Hub

    In your Released Hub roadmap, add this JQL condition to include ideas where the field is unchecked or unset:

    ("Hide from public roadmap" = 0 OR "Hide from public roadmap" IS EMPTY)

    Use the exact name of your field. Keep the parentheses when combining this condition with other filters so both alternatives stay within your existing selection.

  3. Step 3 Review and publish your roadmap

    Check the filtered roadmap before publishing. An idea with the checkbox checked should be excluded; an unchecked idea or one where the field has never been set should still appear, provided it matches your other filters.

    Once the selection is right, publish your roadmap.

Understanding the JQL filter

Jira Product Discovery stores a checked checkbox as 1 and an unchecked checkbox as 0. An idea where the field has never been set can have an EMPTY value instead.

The filter includes both 0 and EMPTY, so ideas without a checkbox value are not accidentally excluded. Ideas with a checked value of 1 are left off the roadmap.

Conclusion

Once the filter is set up, you can choose which cards to show or hide from Jira Product Discovery. This lets customers follow your progress while internal improvements, technical work and confidential plans stay off the public roadmap.

When you change the selection in Jira, review the result in Released Hub and update and re-publish the roadmap to share the change with customers.