Public Roadmap

A public page that tells customers what you're planning, what you're building, and what you've shipped — in three columns, on a link you control.

Plan: Business and above

What you can do

  • Curate a roadmap of items grouped into Planned, In Progress and Completed.
  • Link a roadmap item to a real work item, or write a standalone item that has no work item behind it.
  • Give the roadmap a title, a description and an accent colour.
  • Hide individual items without deleting them.
  • Hide the whole Completed column.
  • Publish it on a secret link, and rotate that link to kill the old one.

The public roadmap is curated, not automatic. Nothing appears on it unless you put it there. That's deliberate — your internal backlog is not a roadmap.

Getting started

Open the settings

Go to Workspace settings → Public Roadmap.

Only workspace admins can see this page. Members cannot.

📷 Screenshot: Workspace settings → Public Roadmap, showing the title/description fields, the "Make roadmap public" toggle and the Roadmap Items section below.

Set it up

  1. Give the roadmap a Title (for example, Acme product roadmap).
  2. Add a Description — a sentence about what people are looking at.
  3. Pick an Accent colour.
  4. Decide whether to Show completed items. Off hides the Completed column from visitors entirely.
  5. Click Save.

Add roadmap items

In the Roadmap Items section, use the Add new item form:

  1. Optionally pick a project — then optionally pick a work item from it, to link the roadmap entry to real work.
  2. Type the item title. This is what customers read, so write it for them, not for your team. ("Faster search" beats "ENG-4412 reindex shards".)
  3. Choose the status: Planned, In Progress or Completed.
  4. Click Add.

Items appear grouped by status. Each item has an eye icon to hide it from the public page, and a trash icon to delete it.

📷 Screenshot: The Roadmap Items section with items grouped into Planned, In Progress and Completed columns.

Publish it

  1. Turn on Make roadmap public.
  2. Click Save.
  3. The public URL appears — copy it, or open it to see what customers see.

The URL looks like:

https://your-coco-kanban-host/roadmap/9f2c8a4e1b...

That token is random and unguessable. Anyone with it can read the roadmap, without an account.

What visitors see

The public roadmap shows your title, description and accent colour, and the items you've made visible, grouped into Planned / In Progress / Completed.

Visitors do not see: work item IDs, assignees, dates, comments, projects, or anything else from your workspace. Only the item titles you wrote and the column they're in. Linking a roadmap item to a work item is for your reference — it does not expose that work item.

  • Make roadmap public → off, then Save. The public URL immediately 404s.
  • Rotate link generates a brand-new token. The old link stops working straight away — permanently. Use it if a link has been shared somewhere you regret.

The public page is cached briefly (about 30 seconds), so an edit can take a moment to appear for visitors. Rotating a link is not delayed by the cache — the old token dies at once.

Tips

  • Write roadmap titles as outcomes, not tickets. Customers read this.
  • Turn Show completed off if the Completed column is thin. A roadmap with two shipped things looks worse than a roadmap with none.
  • Hiding an item (the eye icon) is better than deleting it when something slips — you can bring it back.
  • Rotate the link when someone leaves the company if the URL was in a doc they had.

Limits & good to know

  • Nothing syncs. Moving a linked work item to Done does not move its roadmap item to Completed. You move it yourself. The link between a roadmap item and a work item is a reference, not a live binding.
  • Three statuses only. Planned, In Progress, Completed. No dates, no quarters, no "under consideration", no themes.
  • No ordering UI within a column. Items carry a display order but there's no drag-and-drop; they come out in the order they were added.
  • No customer feedback. Visitors cannot vote, comment or subscribe. It's a read-only page.
  • Admins only. Workspace members can't view or edit the roadmap settings.
  • The public link is a secret in a URL — no password, no expiry. Rotate it if it leaks.