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Atlassian Connect add-on - sort backlog

Arturas Rimkus

I'm trying to create an add-on for JIRA Cloud. What I want the add-on to do is sort the backlog (on the Backlog Screen) by some property, for instance, estimate, so that issues with highest estimates are on top of the backlog and that with the lowest at the bottom.

Can this be done?

Accepted answers

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I'm not sure that a Connect add-on can get to the sort order on the surface, and even if it could, the best you can do with it would be to remove the ability to rank issues. I'd recommend not trying to do this, as ranking is quite important to backlogs.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Arturas Rimkus

Hi Nic. I wouldn't be removing the ability to rank issues. I just want to sort by a property (I guess this means updating the ranks of issues), and then the user change the rank manually. So, do you know if an add-on can update issue ranks?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The backlog takes the sort order from the filter for the board. So, there's basically two ways you could sort by another field - change the filter to have a different sort order (which breaks ranking because you have to sort by rank in order to rank things), or update the issues by re-ranking them all in your new order (which breaks ranking because it destroys all the ranking the users have done). Either way, ranking is broken.

The third option is to rewrite the whole backlog screen, either by hacking the JIRA Software code, or duplicating it into a new add-on with your sort order added. Neither of those can be done on Cloud.

Arturas Rimkus

Updating issues by re-ranking them is the option I'm after. And, of course, this would be done with the user's consent, so it would not break ranking per se.

So, to explore this option, is it possible to change issue ranks? Could you please point me to the right bit of documentation?

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