Ordering a Project Board by Due Date

[B Gray]

My husband and I use a free jira account to manage our household chores/tasks. (insert laughter...but we love it!...imagine Jira just knowing it's time to turn your hose bibs off, or dust that one window once a year etc.).  We use a project board and review the "due" list but as it populated it's always everything in the next week, we'd really prefer for it to have that list in chronological order.  

Reviewing the info on the forum I see that you should be able to change this in the board configurations, but we don't have board configurations.  

Does anyone out there have any thoughts? ideas? 

--and no we don't want our due to be reduced to just the current day as we often attack the next week or so over a few days, so it's nice to have the whole weeks viewable.

Thanks!

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @B Gray,

I absolutely love this 💙💙💙 - and I can totally relate to what you're doing as I am doing the exact same thing at home. I even recognise the approach to recurring tasks 😅 ...

I had not taken a very close look at how due dates are displayed on cards, but I can confirm that I see the exact same behaviour as what you describe: on a computer, due dates are nicely visible on the board cards, but they don't appear in the mobile app. That would be a nice enhancement. But since it is not there currently, I have implemented my own, simple workaround using filters.

I have 3 filters, which I marked as favourites in the mobile app, one for overdue items, the ones due over the next 7 days and one for items due later:

That way, I can always and easily find them when I need them with a single click. In the list view there, the due date is even displayed on the cards. And through and ORDER BY Due ASC statement in the filters, the items are ordered correctly by due date as well.

Hope this helps! 

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @B Gray 

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

What type of Jira project are you using? You can get that information from the Type column on the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

For Business projects (Company Managed and Team Managed) the ordering of issues displayed on the board view is locked to ordering by Rank.

For Team Managed Software project the ordering is also locked to Rank.

For Company Managed Software projects the ordering can be changed to other fields, like Due Date, that can be used for sorting issues.

If you are using a Business project or a Team Managed Software project, you can create another board like the ones used by Company Managed Software projects, and that would give you the ability to change the ordering to Due Date. For more information on that topic refer to these two great articles posted by other Community Leaders:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-articles/Multiple-boards-in-Business-and-Team-Managed-Projects-You-bet/ba-p/1719761

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Agile-articles/Creating-a-Second-Agile-Board-for-Team-Managed-or-JIra-Work/ba-p/2115018

[B Gray]

Thank you so much for this! This is the right direction for sure.....I've created a board, however I'm not having an issue 

On the App I added due date into the card layout,  and it appears like this

However online and preferably we would like it to show like below with the date/and in red when it's the day. Any thoughts on why this isn't showing on the app? Our project board on the app does show it...

 

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @B Gray 

What type of Jira project are you using? You can get that information from the Type column on the View All Projects page under the Projects menu.

The display of the date in red as in the second image is a feature that is not available in all types of boards.

That works in Business project built-in boards, and in Team Managed Software project built-in boards. It is not a feature of boards created for Company Managed Software projects nor boards created from Saved Filters.

On that latter type of board you could add Swimlanes defined by Queries to make horizontal groupings of the items that are due, say, this week, and another grouping for those due beyond this week but still in this calendar month, and then everything else grouped together.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/configure-swimlanes/

[B Gray]

It's a team managed board. But its working on the website version of the board and not on the app version. 

[Trudy Claspill]

I don't use the app, so I can't speak to the differences in functionality between it and the browser interface.