Ranking Ideas in JPD vs Roadmap Report View

[Jeremy Drexler]

Use Case:

5 separate teams, each using their own discovery projects. Within each of these projects, PMs manually drag and drop ideas up and down their lists according to rank/priority.

We use Roadmap Reporting views to bring each teams ideas together in one place. Using global fields, we're able to paint a very detailed picture of what's going on in each project, with one exception - Roadmap Reporting does not respect the idea rank thats been defined in the individual projects. 

An obvious workaround would be to create a "rank" field and manually fill it out, however my credibility in terms of getting new discovery features/workflows adapted is somewhat built on the promise of making things easier/less manual, and this would be a step back. It also doesnt appear theres a way to automate having a hidden rank field update when a feature is drag/dropped.

In the absence of a better work around, I'd like to ask whether this is a common challenge and/or something being investigated by the JPD team. The power of the data that we're sharing is diminished when the top priority items are scattered across a teams list of commitments, and manually updating a rank fields adds more risk of human error + more work for someone (probably me)