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A method to quickly prioritize issues by using columns in a Kanban board ?

Eric Longoria
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April 19, 2018

I'm looking for a method to quickly assign and edit priorities for a number of issues during a meeting in a collaborative environment.  I have an idea, but can't think of way to make it work. 

I would like to create a Kanban board where the columns are set to: Backlog, P1, P2, P3, and P4.  All issues would start in the Backlog column.  Users would then be able to drag issues from the Backlog column to either the P1, P2, P3, or P4 columns to prioritize them. 

To make the above idea work, I was thinking of having each of the columns map to the same "Open" status.  Each of these columns, while mapping to the same status, would have a different transition that would execute a post function to edit the priority field to the mapped priority.  This, of course, won't work because you cannot map the same status to multiple columns.

Is there any way to prioritize issues faster than hand editing each one in the side panes?  I know that you can also bulk edit, but that won't work in an environment where a group of people are collectively prioritizing together. 

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miikhy
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April 24, 2018

Hi Eric,

Frst I'd like to highlight that I definitely love the collaborative prioritization approach!

It might be a bit of an overkill but can you add a "prioritized" status with multiple transitions from Open to Prioritized (one for each priority, which could even assign priority during transition). When dragging the issue from Open to Prioritized column, you'll have the choice to drop them in on of the four boxes accordigly and they'll be all set.

Does that make sense for you? Am I understandable? :p

Thanks!

Eric Longoria
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April 28, 2018

Hello Micky,

This is a great idea!  I just implemented it and it looks like it'll work for us!  There is one problem in that after we prioritize all of the issues, I then need to transition them BACK to their original status prior to the meeting.  That's a bit of legwork, but doable. 

Thanks for the great idea! 

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April 30, 2018

Hi Eric,

Glad it's working for you. If you really want to save more clicks, you can update your workflow to create transitions between Prioritized and all statuses, so that you might want to automate the transition back to original status once priority set :) That might be a more advanced implementation through scripting though.

Have a great day!

Cheers

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