Can I sort issues in the Backlog view by priority

Michael Simpson_xyp934

I'm a new user. I'm interested in planning sprints in the Backlog view because its easy to drag issues into a sprint.

But I'd like to view issues by priority to make it easier to plan by impact. Can't seem to do this...

 

I've read that I can create a new Board with different settings that allow me to view by priority in Backlog, but then I can't drag and drop....

I'm quite surprised this isn't possible natively / by default... isn't this a basic need?

Any help appreciated! 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You can sort a backlog by whatever fields you want, by using the "order by" clause.

But sorting by anything other than rank stops you being able to drag and drop because the fields are not ranked and hence cannot be ranked.

Yes, it is a "basic need", but it is one that has to be met with ranking, not sorting by other types of field.  The explanations of the logic and the mathematics behind this often get twisted up and hard to explain, so I will try a worked example:

Imagine you have four issues, the first four in the ABC project, and your backlog says simply "Project = ABC".  Next, imagine you have the following data for them:

• ABC-1  rank 1 priority high
• ABC-2  rank 2 priority high
• ABC-3  rank 3 priority high
• ABC-4  rank 4 priority medium

You can see they are ordered by rank.  Now, if you switch to ordering by priority, that's fine, it'll work.  And if you took ABC-4 and dragged it to the top of the list, obviously we change the pirority on it to "high".  But what would you expect to change if you dragged ABC-3 to be "above" ABC-2?