How to make a list of tasks from projects?

Question

I am wondering if there is a way to create an ordered list of tasks from multiple projects. I have many projects with various tasks for each, and I would like to create a priority list for a developer with tasks from these projects to finish in a linear order, without having to recreate the tasks elsewhere.

For example:

1. Project B, task 3

2. Project A, task 7

3. Project A, task 4

Is this possible?

Karyna Tyrnavska _SaaSJet · Answer

Hi, @George Egonut !

As an alternative, you can convert tasks into a ToDo list for each project. For such a case try out Recurring Checklists and Report add-on. My team has developed it to structure routine tasks and get a report for each task.

George Egonut · Answer

Thank you for the reply! No, I haven't look at what fields I could use -- even if I could just use an integer value so the developer could at least look at the tasks and say "okay, I finished the one marked 1, now I'll move to 2", etc., that would be sufficient.

I haven't played around with JQL but I'm familiar with SQL so I'll play around with that.

Carlos Garcia Navarro · Answer

Hi @George Egonut ,

Yes, you could use JQL to select tasks from several projects. If you use the assignee as your criteria to pull the list try: project in (ProjectA, ProjectB, ProjectC) and assignee = "developerA".
Are you using any other field to categorize the tasks that you'd like to include in the list?

Are you using a field to show the priority? In that case you can use the ORDER by clause.