Can we insert any task in between already existing tasks?

Question

For instance, I have created multiple tasks in a sequential manner for a project and later on, I wanted to insert a task in middle and then I want the following tasks to rearrange themselves automatically according to task number.

Is it possible in Jira?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

There's no way to re-arrange task numbers (and even writing something to try to emulate it would make a right mess), but if you use Jira Software, you can rank them all in the backlog

Samandeep Singh · Answer

Thanks for your reply.

Ok , So can we sort or create a view according to order TEST-1,TEST-3,TEST-2

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Hello,

For example, you have two tasks with the keys TEST-1, TEST-2. And if you want to add a new task with TEST-2, and the old TEST-2 must become TEST-3, then it is not possible out of the box.

You could use a scripting add-on to change the old TEST-2 with new data and create a new TEST-3 with the old data, but it would be too much hassle.