How are issues ordered or sorted in Structure - what field shows this?

Pratik Mitra2

Hi,

I am triying to extract out a list of items in Structure and maintain the order in a JIRA Issue Navigator query. However there doesnt appear to be any coresponding field for this in JIRA??

In JIRA there is the Rank field to show prioritied issues, but how and where does one find out the order of issues priotitised/ordered in Structure?

Tx

P

Igor Sereda [ALM Works]

Hi Pratik,

In current Structure version, sorting is not supported natively. A structure is a hierarchical collection of issues - exactly in the same order as you have assembled it.

For example, if you take an empty structure, then run a JQL query with ORDER BY clause, resulting in sorted issues, then add all those issues to the structure - then you'll have an ordered structure. But if then some issue changes, the order of issues will not change.

Since you mention Rank, I can tell that if you're using JIRA Agile (GreenHopper), and use Rank to order issues on the Agile board, that order can be synchronized with a structure via GreenHopper synchronizer. Let me know if you need to learn more about that, or elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish.

Hope this helps!
Igor