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Fairly new to JIRA, and using it to track my projects at my new employer.  Started setting EPICs up, but quickly realised I wanted to view them in order of importance.  Since the EPIC number is set by the system, I want to sort on the Summary or Description field.  I created a custom filter  wioth the following:

project = "AJ Manufacturing" ORDER BY summary ASC

I also edited my Epic Descriptions to include numbers such as

4 - ERP Implementation

5 - IT Policy Creation

I have tried editing the filter to ORDER BY description also tried modifying the description to letters such as A, B, C in place of 1, 2, 3 but the filter doesn't change my view.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Matt Parks · Answer

Are you looking for an order like 1 through 20 or more just a grouping of priority like High/Medium/Low?

Dave Rosenlund (Trundl) · Answer

Welcome to the community, @Trent Upshaw 👋

The most common way to do this is to sort by Priority, which is a pull-down picklist that, once set, is usually not variable across projects and teams.

Conversely, Summary and Description are freeform text fields.  Setting up a naming convention that everyone will adhere to correctly is probably not a recipe for success.

E.g.:

project in (pro1, pro2, pro3) AND issueType = Epic AND ORDER BY priority DESC

Hope this helps,

-dave