Sort Backlog by Priority

[Philipp Goennenwein]

Hello everyone,

i already checked the Posts about this topic below, but these didnt help for my Problem:

I want to sort my Backlog by Priority.

I created 3 types, as you can see at the picture below:

Project = "Projectname" ORDER BY priority DESC

But when I activate this Filter, it is simply not working!

Thanks 4 your help

[Gregor Kasmann_Actonic]

I suppose you are looking something like this https://confluence.atlassian.com/agile/jira-agile-resources/jira-agile-faq/how-do-i-sort-the-backlog

[Philipp Goennenwein]

Hi,

thanks for your answer. As I said, I did exactly that. 

[Gregor Kasmann_Actonic]

I've just checked it on my test project and it works properly:

Check your setting and if everything ok - try to refresh backlog page.

[Philipp Goennenwein]

Thats crazy,... mine isnt.

As you can see, my Backlog isnt ordered by prio.

My Filter (Sort by Prio) is set, but it does simply not order my Backlog.

[Syauqi]

Hi,

just to chip in here, ranking for board is currently locked at this moment and there is an existing feature request which you can track: Ability to prioritise issues in the backlog view more easily.

There are several question raised here as well:

- https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Cannot-use-quick-filter-to-order-by-user-when-project-filter-is/qaq-p/63256

The board remains sorted by rank because it is ranked and that's the point of a board.  An order in a quickfilter is ignored because the board is supposed to be showing you the ranking.

- https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/i-want-to-use-an-order-by-something-other-than-ranking-and-still/qaq-p/529462

Hope this relates

Cheers,

Syauqi

[service@ecn-kiel.de]

I have the same problem, the backlog of the board was not sorted by priority although I used exactly the same filter query: "project = PROJECTNAME ORDER BY priority DESC.

It stays unsorted.  After deleting the filter, missing the board twice and renewed it also twice I was successful with the following:

I open the board / configure / filter settings and changed the filter query in the search line to project = PROJECTNAME ORDER BY priority DESC. Than I send ENTER and through that, the save-button was enabled. I clicked on it and so I saved my changes.

Now its working fine and the backlog is automatically sorted by priority.

[Markus_COGNITIFF]

Just keep in mind that changing the ORDER BY clause in filter query form "order by rank" to "order by priority" will cause drag-and-drop to stop working. That is because the D&D feature in Jira uses a rank field, and if issues are not sorted by rank, D&D will not work. So your issues will be ordered by priority, but you will not be able to do things like move issues into a sprint.

If you still need drag-and-drop, you can have a look at the Sort by any Field plugin that our company (COGNITIFF) developed to address precisely this problem.  The plugin works with the rank field and lets you define rank rules (priority, story points, etc.). 

I hope that helps!