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Display ranking on backlog

Rachael Gresham

I think I might be missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to add the ranking field to my backlog view, nor to my sprint board. The field is enabled in the issue context fields list, but seems to be only viewable when I'm in the full issue view or the filter view I created. I can't seem to add this field to any other views.

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Bill Sheboy

Hi @Rachael Gresham

That seems correct that the built-in Rank field cannot be added to the board or backlog views, and...I wonder: what problem you are trying to solve by displaying it?

The Rank field contains the Lexorank value and is not very human-friendly to determine ordering of issues.

Kind regards,
Bill

Rachael Gresham

There seems to be two fields; one is Rank, and that appears to be the non human-friendly version. The other field is Ranking, and this is numerical. My hope is to work with my business users to Rank the issues, so my team knows which order to work them in.

jira rank.jpg

If there is another way to accomplish this, I'm definitely interested. Thank you!

Bill Sheboy

Thanks for clarifying, Rachael.

The Ranking field appears to be a custom field, and if your site admin added it the field should be possible to add on the backlog and board (cards) views.

If you are using a Company-managed project, the project admin can add the field by selecting ... > board settings > card layout

Olaf Kosel_88xs1c

Hi @Rachael Gresham, it seams you found a workaround for displaying the backlog rank position by using a custom field. Can you share this workaround please?

Thanks Olaf

P.S: Atlassian doesn't plan to implement a product solution for this use case :-/ -> JSWCLOUD-15444

Rachael Gresham

Hello @Olaf Kosel ,

The only way I was able to get this to work was by using a custom filter. I am still unable to display the ranking on the backlog view and the sprint board. In the custom filter I set up my criteria and then used "ORDER BY cf[10835]" which is the field ID for the ranking field. Here is a screenshot:

Jira filter.jpg

I would prefer to have the ranking field available in any view that displays the list of issues, but this filter is the only way I've been able to find that accomplishes this.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Is that field being calculated from the actual rank field?

Rachael Gresham

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- No, it's a custom field we use to manually enter the business user ranking when setting priorities. We've set the field to default to the value 50 to indicate the issue has not yet been reviewed, and when we review the issues with our business users they determine the priority and we update the value in this field accordingly.

Jeff Dworkin

To use the Jira tickets own rank field to have it work correctly in generated Backlog views, you need to add the clause "ORDER BY Rank ASC" to your JQL with no other order by clauses. This will then make the Rank attribute available on the boards 'issue detail view'

davesoft11

I'm also looking for a solution to this.

To make sure I'm on the same page, the Backlog allows dragging to order the items. But I haven't found any way to see the numerical rank of a jira in the backlog.

Why is this useful? If you're viewing the whole list, it doesn't add much value over just viewing the list itself. But displaying the numerical rank would be very helpful when any time of search or filter was applied to the backlog, such as with Epics, Versions, or the Search field. In those cases, you may see things from all over the backlog, but you won't know if they're near the top or not. See the numerical rank would solve that problem.

Kate C_

Hi @davesoft11, this topic has been locked because the thread has become a bit dated. If you’d like to keep the conversation going because you have additional questions, we encourage you to start a new topic. You can read more about necro posting (“raising threads from the dead”) in our Community Guidelines.

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