How to change the order of issues on scrum board in a status column?

[Umar Maroof]

Hello

I have a scrum board where the columns of the boards are set depend upon the status. Now the issues are appearing randomly, I want to change the order of my issues in a board. I want the issues that is transits most recently to that status will appear on the top of the column of the status or bottom of the column of the status. 

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Umar,

You will not be able to do that. The rank of the issues is based on a complicated formula, which I think is somehow related to when the issue came onto the board in relation to the other issues already on the board. So, you will not be able to order issues in a single column differently than other columns, other than to do it manually. 

You can add an ORDER BY statement to the end of the board filter for something other than Rank, but it will apply to the entire board, for all columns. 

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Umar Maroof 

Yes, and...to John's answer:

The default order in the filter for project boards is ORDER BY Rank ASC

It is possible to change the ORDER BY for the board filter to show things in the order you ask.  However that will break something else: you will no longer be able to drag and drop items.  This is why many teams do not do this.  Instead people often use the quick filter feature to help focus on the most recently changed/moved items or the ones which have not changed/moved in a while (e.g., "stuck" items).

Kind regards,
Bill

[Umar Maroof]

@John Funk @Bill Sheboy Thankyou so much for your responses now I understand but I want to know from where I can change this Order by rank this because I board setting general I see this Order by rank ASC but its not editable there so from where I can change and also for my what will be the filter should I write?

[John Funk]

You need to change the actual filter directly that the board uses. 

[Umar Maroof]

@John Funk From here You mean because I cant able to edit this

[John Funk]

No, you can't edit there - you should have a Filter Name up above that where it says Saved Filter. Under that is the Filter name. Copy that or note the name.

Then go to Filters in the top nav bar, and select View filters. Then search for the filter. And then select it and make your change there. Don't forget to save it. 

[Umar Maroof]

@John Funk Thanks its work for me 

I have one question more In the list view for issues In column I want to show original estimate and log work column as well but when I click on the configure column option only 20 fields are available below is the picture  

[John Funk]

Did you start typing the name of the fields? Jira can be a little different like that at times. 

[Umar Maroof]

@John Funk I did but still it's just giving me only 20 fiel

[John Funk]

So you have more than 20 fields that all start with the same first few letters? 

[John Funk]

Great! Glad you have a solution.

[Umar Maroof]

@John Funk Now I get this by switching I can configure all fields ..Thanks for your time