Your question box needs improveme! It keeps jumping to a non-related topic and erasing my original ?

[Brian Schwalbach]

How do I change the default behavior or sort order of the Done swimlane, so the tasks I move most recently to the Done swimlane appear at the top?  I don't want to have to right-click and move to top of swimlane every time I move an item to Done.

[Daniel Eads]

Hi Brian,

You can make this happen by using ORDER BY updatedDate in your board's filter query:

1. In the upper right, click the Board button and then click Configure in the dropdown
2. Click the Edit Query Filter link in the middle of the screen (you won't have this option if you are not an owner of the board - in this case you'll need to track down someone listed in the Administrators section higher up on this screen)
3. Remove the ORDER BY Rank statement in the JQL and put ORDER BY updatedDate at the end
4. Search with your updated JQL, then Save the filter

In my example board, you can see what the settings for the filter will look like when you're done:

 

Note that just like the Ranking section says, Ranking on the board will be disabled once you make this change. This means you won't be able to drag and drop issues up and down to reorder them - whatever was touched last (including comments) will go to the top of the column.

Cheers,
Daniel

[Brian Schwalbach]

Yeah, I don't control the filter as I'm not the owner of the board or an Administrator.  I also don't like that you lose the drag/drop ability...and either would anyone else.  Additionally, I just wanted to effect the order the Done column, not the To Do, In Progress or Impediments columns.  See, when we're in our daily stand-up, I like to have which sub-tasks I most recently finished at the top of the column, so that I can more easily spot and speak to them on the board...makes a lot of sense, right?  Ideally, Jira would allow each user to control how his/her tasks behave when the tasks are dragged to the Done column.  Could that be a future enhancement?