Board filter - Can I order by rank but always show Critical ones to the top

Question

I have my Jira board sorted by Rank as we would like to manually re-order items. However, we would also like to occasionally mark some tickets as critical and therefore have these always automatically show at the top of a column. Is there a way to do this with JQL in the board filter? E.g. Sorted by rank and Critical issues always show at the top of a column?

Samuel Stephens_k2dx2s · Answer

Hi @Pete Ross

As @Dave Mathijs has suggested you could use swimlanes.

However as you've mentioned you have many other swimlanes so in this case I'd suggest setting your swimlanes up using the option for Queries. Then you could place your Critical query at the top of your board so they would always be shown first. Followed bu whatever other queries you'd like to display as swimlanes, perhaps by Priority?

Good luck!

Pete Ross · Answer

Thanks Dave - we were originally using this approach. We already have quite a few other swimlanes so were wondering if it could be achieved in the same swimlane with a JQL filter. However, think we might have to do as you say and add the swimlane back.

Pete Ross · Answer

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