Ordering a Project Board by Due Date

Question

My husband and I use a free jira account to manage our household chores/tasks. (insert laughter...but we love it!...imagine Jira just knowing it's time to turn your hose bibs off, or dust that one window once a year etc.).  We use a project board and review the "due" list but as it populated it's always everything in the next week, we'd really prefer for it to have that list in chronological order.

Reviewing the info on the forum I see that you should be able to change this in the board configurations, but we don't have board configurations.

Does anyone out there have any thoughts? ideas?

--and no we don't want our due to be reduced to just the current day as we often attack the next week or so over a few days, so it's nice to have the whole weeks viewable.

Thanks!

Walter Buggenhout · Answer

Hi @B Gray,

I absolutely love this 💙💙💙 - and I can totally relate to what you're doing as I am doing the exact same thing at home. I even recognise the approach to recurring tasks 😅 ...

I had not taken a very close look at how due dates are displayed on cards, but I can confirm that I see the exact same behaviour as what you describe: on a computer, due dates are nicely visible on the board cards, but they don't appear in the mobile app. That would be a nice enhancement. But since it is not there currently, I have implemented my own, simple workaround using filters.

I have 3 filters, which I marked as favourites in the mobile app, one for overdue items, the ones due over the next 7 days and one for items due later:

That way, I can always and easily find them when I need them with a single click. In the list view there, the due date is even displayed on the cards. And through and ORDER BY Due ASC statement in the filters, the items are ordered correctly by due date as well.

Hope this helps!

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

I don't use the app, so I can't speak to the differences in functionality between it and the browser interface.

B Gray · Answer

It's a team managed board. But its working on the website version of the board and not on the app version.