Prioritizing Epics and Bugs

[Jeff Wood]

I have a filter that contains the list of epics and bugs in a project. They are sorted by rank. The goal of the filter is to show a consolidated view of priorities for the project.

The challenge I have is that I cannot find a way to change the rank of an epic relative to the rank of a bug (or vice versa). This is because I do not have a board that shows epics and bugs at the same time and allows me to drag and drop them relative to each other.

Note: all other issues types (e.g. stories, tasks, etc) will be part of an epic, therefore we only need to see epics and bugs to get a full view of the priorities for a project.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Jeff Wood 

Welcome to the Atlassian community. 

You can create a Kanban board based on the Saved Filter you have created. Are you familiar with how to do that?

In the Kanban board configuration you will need to choose the option to display Epics as cards on the board.

If you then map all of the "not done" statuses to the Backlog, you will then see all the issues from your filter shown on the Backlog screen and you can drag and drop them to reprioritize them.

[Jeff Wood]

Thanks @Trudy Claspill . This was working well and I am able to see all the issues in the backlog view however I cannot drag them to reorder.

I get the following message: Issues can’t be manually ranked The board’s filter query isn’t sorted by rank. To rank issues manually on your board and backlog, sort issues by ascending rank.

Here is the filter I am using: project = grz and issuetype in (epic, bug) and status not in (done, Cancelled, CLOSED, Duplicated) order by rank asc

Unless I am missing something the filter has the issues sorted by Rank.

Can you help?

[Trudy Claspill]

It appears that boards are sensitive to the case of the word "Rank".

If I use "rank" it thinks that ranking is not turned on.

If I click that button it just changes the word to "Rank". If I manually put "Rank" in when I typed the JQL that also works.

[Jeff Wood]

This worked. Thanks!