Question regarding Jira Dashboards

[claus meisel]

Hi,

I am relatively new to Jira and I am trying to give non engineering folks some visibility to Jira stories that directly affect them. I want to track sales requests for the product. I created a dashboard (using Filter Results) and now I can see a nice looking dashboard. I am showing Key, Summary, Customer, Status, Fix Version, Included in, issue type and priority (not the exact order).

My main problem is sorting. Once a week we want to review issues on this Board and I want to sort to show and go over: 

Newest items, all items that are fixed, etc. But the problem is the sorting is not what I expected. I don't want to sort alphabetically but show New on top and fixed on the bottom. 

I am wondering if there are ways or apps to make this more useful. In the idea world I could have dynamic filters but i see no such thing. 

The way the dashboard is now, makes it really hard to review since all are sorted alphabetically.

any advice would be much appreciated. I found an addon called dynamic filters but it doesn't show for our jira which i guess is cloud based. that looked kind of what I wanted. 

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @claus meisel , welcome to the Community. Indeed there is not a dynamic filter select method for Dashboards. For Kanban and Scrum boards there are Quick Filters which provide this capability. The way Jira Dashboards work is a collection of independent gadgets and there is no overarching gadget to impact the others. I found this addon that seems promising but I have no experience - quick-filters-for-jira-dashboards . If you do try please share your experience here.

Now you can certainly sort any Filter gadget. This can be done by building into the filter you use to associate to the gadget (ORDER BY) and you can sort on the fly by clicking on the header column you are interested in. If you want a multilevel sort you need to build that into the filter, e.g. ...ORDER BY createdDate DESC, status DESC. Note that Status will be alphabetical.

hope this was helpful.