Epic Swimlanes not reordering as expected

[Chris Smith-Hill]

I've set the Swimlane method = Epics in a Kanban board in my project. 

Kanban boards don't have a Backlog view, as I see them. 

If I go to a Backlog board in the same project and reorder the epics, that doesn't change the order of epics in my kanban board. 

What am I doing wrong?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Chris Smith-Hill -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Jira's Kanban boards can have a backlog view:

• for company-managed projects, this is based on the mapping of the status values to the board columns
• for team-managed projects, I believe it is always present as being "in the backlog" is independent of the status value

What type of project are you using?

Next, what is the exact filter for your board?  Does it exclude any epics?

There was a defect for epic swim lanes not respecting the filter's ORDER BY Rank ASC, and that was fixed in November 2023: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-25969

However, there is an edge case that if your board filter excludes an epic, the Rank order of the stories is used instead.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Chris Smith-Hill]

Hi Bill, I have found the option to add a backlog view to the Kanban boards. However when I do and I activate the Epic panel there, the Epics are not draggable. I'm not 100% but I think it is a team managed project, there are other projects for other teams at my company. 
My board filter is - 
project = SAENT and issuetype = Epic AND labels ="FI_MDP" OR project= SAENT and "Epic Link" in (SAENT-4,SAENT-5,SAENT-6,SAENT-7,SAENT-8,SAENT-298) or project = SAENT and labels = FI_MDP

I am using this board as a sort of "Initiative View" as I have a series of Epics that relate to an initiative that I want to track in one view. We are not permissioned for the native Initiative functionality. 

Thanks for taking a look. 

[Chris Smith-Hill]

Perhaps I can remove the epic filters in the query and use a label filter on the board to avoid the corner case...

[Bill Sheboy]

If that is the board filter, you are using a company-managed project.  Team-managed projects do not support configuring the filter manually.

Also...your filter does not have an ORDER BY clause at the end.

The drag-and-drop feature to re-order issues on the board and backlog only works when the board filter ends with ORDER BY Rank ASC

[Chris Smith-Hill]

Sorted! Thanks