Disabling the ability to drag/drop rows in Issue Navigator

[Elizabeth Jarvis]

In a recent upgrade of JIRA Software Server from v6.2.7 to v.7.8.1 we found that in the Issue Navigator view of a specific filter we could now drag and drop rows to re-order these rows even with an "Order By" filter.  Prior to the upgrade, our rows were static and could only be sorted through "Order By" functions.

We do not mind this new sorting ability, but it is affecting some of my users who used to go to their filters and highlight some of the data to quickly copy/paste column sections.  

I have a workaround for them to setup their filter on a dashboard, but this is not as helpful for users who flip between multiple filters or have filters returning 20+ results.  

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable this ability to drag and drop rows in the Issue Navigator view?  Or is there a way to highlight certain results?

[Walter Buggenhout · Accepted solution]

Apparently this feature was introduced in Jira 7.6. There is a report on this that you can find here: JRASERVER-66473.

In the referenced issue, a workaround is described to disable the feature by means of a dark feature. It may have an undesirable impact however on how subtasks can be sorted on issue detail view of their parent issue.

So have a look to see if the workaround fixes your issue. And keep an eye on the mentioned issue to stay in the loop for updates.

[Elizabeth Jarvis]

Thank you so much Walter! I was driving myself crazy trying to find when this feature was implemented.  I am going to try this out first in my test environment and see if my users are okay with the current trade off.