Preferred use and support of Ranking within Jira

Question

We do have the challenge that we have ressources in the team, which are shared among different projects. To get this rid of, we tried to use a Kanban Board to priorize the issues together with the stakeholders. Now we figured out, that if we change a Epic, the stories, which belong to this Epic will not be changed (we use Lexorank, probably this is the main fault?)

What would be the best way, to get the problem solved: Ideally when changing the order of epics or initiatives, all items which have some relation to it (either Epic- Link oder Parent-Child Link) get also updated regarding the new order

Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted Answer

Hi @Steffen Schäfer ,

Any chance you could explain what the desired result would be here (preferably with some examples/screenshots)?

Currently, when you change the order (rank) of Epics or Initiatives on a board, the child items do not automatically update their order to match the new Epic ranking.
There's also no built-in feature that would do something like that. However, there's an open feature request: JRACLOUD-88119: Changes to Rank of an Epic don't change the Rank of their child Stories.

Workaround (except doing this manually), would maybe me to use some kind of custom field (e.g., "Sequence") and sorting by that field, but this still feels like it wouldn't cover all the cases 🤔

Cheers,
Tobi

John Funk · Accepted Answer

Hi Steffan- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I really don't see this functionality ever becoming a reality in native Jira in my work lifetime.

You might consider creating a custom number field with some automation rules. Like where where the children of the Epic are set to have the same value as the Epic. Then you could do an ORDER BY this number field in the board filter. It probably won't get what you want to achieve, but that is probably the closest you will get.