Can you order issues differently per column on the same board?

[Neal Carroll]

I would like to have the issues in my "Complete" column on my Kanban board ordered by date completed, with the most recently finished issues at the top of the column. But I want all of my other columns on the same board to have the issues ordered by rank, where I can drag and drop the most important/time sensitive issues at the top of each column.

If this is possible, I'm assuming it would be through the filter query in the board settings. Is it possible to set a filter query that is specific to an individual column? Or does a filter query have to apply to the whole board?

[Bastian Stehmann · Accepted solution]

Hi @Neal Carroll ,

The filter always applies to the whole board.

And as far as I know, there is no way to achieve a different sorting only for one column.

[Steve Smith]

Isn't this a very natural way for people to use kanban boards though? Why isn't this the default?

[John Funk]

Hi Neal - You could add sorting by status in the workflow but not sure that will give you the results you want - you would need to experiment with it. 

[John Funk]

So, a little more information. If you have a separate Column by Status on your board, then you could try something like: Project = ABC ORDER BY Status DESC, "Date Completed" DESC

The "Date Completed" part would probably look like cf[17000] or whatever the id is for the Date Completed field. 

Again, no idea if this will work for you or provide what you want, but it is worth a shot.

One note, if you add the order by in your filter, you will no longer be able to change priorities within the column by dragging up and down. 

[Simon Eyraud]

@John Funk Your hack is working, that's a nice workaround. Just have make sure the issues resolution are correctly set. Else the resolved field will be empty and the hack won't work.

And here why it's work : if resolution field is not set (which happen for not Done issues), the resolved field is empty. So the sort by resolved will work only for Done column