My god, please support sorting swimlanes in boards

[Brian Franzen]

For the love of God, should a 10 minute code change

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's a couple of existing requests in JaC for this, but they keep getting closed down because the people raising them can't define any useful scheme for what they want from the sort.

What would you like to sort, and how?

[Brian Franzen]

At least alphabetically by default, but and option to choose a field asc/desc would be ideal

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

And how does that work with ranking?

[Brian Franzen]

Ranking is within columns per swimlane, rather than inter-swimlane

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

But your sort would destroy the ranking, from what I can see.

I think you need to explain what you would like to sort.  "Swimlanes" is not enough to go on, it needs more explanation.

[Brian Franzen]

1. Order swimlanes by a field asc/desc, asc by summary at least

2. Order issues within swimlanes by JQL query order

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, I'm sorry, but in 1, you've done it again.  "order swimlanes" does not define what you're asking.

2 makes perfect sense, and is already there.

[Brian Franzen]

Divorce yourself of what you know of the internal workings and try to look at this from a UX perspective.

When enable swimlanes and collapse them all, you'll see that there's no discernible order to them 

[Brian Franzen]

Obviously, query based swimlanes are in explicit order, so try epic or story based swimlanes 

[Jan-Peter Rusch]

Could you describe a usecase for swimlanes ordered asc? I always want the swimlanes containing the most critical / important issues at the top. That’s the way I configure my boards.

[Brian Franzen]

How do you do that?  Get your important swimlanes on top?

[Jan-Peter Rusch]

You can move the swimlanes to the desired position:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/configuring-swimlanes-764478010.html

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Basically, that's where I was headed, but wasn't sure!  Thanks @Jan-Peter Rusch for picking it up faster than me!

[Brian Franzen]

Yes, thank you @JanR for the suggestion!  Not ideal solution but we can live with it.