Jira Plan Rank different to same JQL (order by Rank)

Question

For PI we use a Jira Plan to prioritise our Portfolio Epics (the plans filter just shows Portfolio Epics).

Once we've done this we submit the selected changes (it says it's changing Rank) and everything is fine.

However when using the same JQL as the filter for the plan and put Order By Rank - the order is completely different to that of the plan ?

Anything I am doing wrong?

BTW - seems to work fine if it's Epics!

Stuart Keates · Answer

Hello @Trudy P Claspill

So the filter in the plan would be : project = ABC and issuetype = "Portfolio Epic" , and the order in the plan would be :

ABC-1
ABC-2
ABC-3
ABC-4

However if I go to the JQL search and type : project = ABC and issuetype = "Portfolio Epic" Order By Rank, it will return a different order (for example)

ABC-2
ABC-3
ABC-1
ABC-4

This is annoying as we want to use the Jira macro in Confluence, use the JQL and it to display the same order as what the plan displays.

Agree we can use Jira plan in Confluence, but we want to show the certain fields (which the plan can not display).

As for Epics, if I replace everything above with Epic (rather than Portfolio Epic) it behaves how we expect.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Stuart Keates

BTW - seems to work fine if it's Epics!

1. Do you mean if you change the filter when you put it into JQL to filter just for Epics then the results are what you expect?

2. Can you provide more detail on how the results in JQL don't match your expectations, and share the filter you are using?