# Feature Placement on the Public Roadmap
## General rules used to place features on the Public Roadmap
* For a feature to appear on the public roadmap - you should set its **Visibility** to be **public**
* The second important thing here is the **Status** property that can be set to **Backlog, In Progress, Soon, Future,** or **Released** and **Will Not Implement.**\
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When you set the Status to one of the following: **In Progress, Soon, Future** - you'll see this feature on the **Roadmap** page of the public roadmap.\
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Once you set the Status field to the **Backlog** value - the feature will be available on the **Backlog** page of the public roadmap.\
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If you set the Status to **Released** you'll be prompted to confirm your choice, cause this action will lead to an official feature release that will also trigger sending notifications to all the feature subscribers, placing the feature on the **Released** page of the public roadmap, and also sending this feature to your **Changelog**.\
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Setting Status to **Will Not Implement** will just mark the feature as Complete and it'll not be available publicly and on the Active tab of the Features page.
## Using Sprints Mode (deprecated)
After analyzing what kind of product we want to build we decided to deprecate the Sprints mode since it's more of a Project management tool than Product Management. If you think you really need it, please vote here:
### **Backlog Section**
If a feature is not assigned to any **Sprint** and is publicly visible - it's placed in the **Backlog** section of the public roadmap.
### Roadmap Section
If a feature is assigned to a **Sprint**, it will be placed in the **Roadmap** section.\
When a sprint is in the **Running** state, the feature will be added to In Progress column on the public roadmap page.
When a sprint's **Start Date** field is scheduled within the next 2 months, it will be placed in the **Soon** column.
When a sprint is scheduled to start later than 2 months, it will be added to the **Future** column.
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Later there will be an ability to change this 2 months period to whatever you like.
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