Milestones
Milestones allow you to mark key points within a project plan. They can be created from issues or flex items in the structure.
![Milestone in a Gantt chart](../../__attachments/3677913491/Milestone.png?inst-v=4f633ce0-1102-4b14-82de-92bf3477a27e)
Once a milestone is added to the chart, you can drag it to a desired date (if Manual Scheduling is enabled) and link tasks or groups to it. If a milestone has been manually scheduled, it will have a dark ridge down it's center:
![Manually scheduled milestones have a black line](../../__attachments/3677913491/Milestone%20-%20Manually%20Scheduled.png?inst-v=4f633ce0-1102-4b14-82de-92bf3477a27e)
In order to manually schedule a milestone, you first need to set the Milestone attribute under the Manual Scheduling Configuration configuration.
Creating a Milestone
There are two ways milestones can be created within a Gantt chart:
Display specific tasks as milestones using slice-based configurations.
Use the Milestone button to manually convert a selected item into a milestone.
![milestone button](../../__attachments/3677913491/Milestone%20Button.png?inst-v=4f633ce0-1102-4b14-82de-92bf3477a27e)
Since there is no concept of milestone in Jira, milestones are only visible within Gantt. However, their dates can be exported using Copy to Jira.