Scrum board query filter by priority

[Amie Fudge]

Rather than display our scrum board by Rank (requiring me to manually move tickets around from top to bottom) I wanted to set the priority of a ticket and adjust my JQL to order by priority instead

It seems that when I have a backlog of only High, Medium or Low priority items the query returns it as Medium, High, Low instead

Below is the query I'm using (if I change to ASC it switches to low, high, med).  I want it to be High, Medium, Low

project = AIR AND issuetype != Sub-task ORDER BY priority DESC

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

An administrator can define the order of the priority. Check if you have the order defined correctly.

[Amie Fudge]

Thanks Jobin - I'll check with them

[Jared DiScipio]

How are queries formatted? How should an admin define order of the priority. How can I filter my board by priority using the filter query?