ORDER BY Priority DESC is not working in backlog/active sprint

[Jackie Rosenzveig]

I have a Quick Filter with ORDER BY Priority DESC, but backlog & active sprint are still sorted by RANK (and I can still drag to change rank).

Any idea why my sort order is being ignored? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Because a quick filter is there to hide issues from the board, not change the sort order.

[Jackie Rosenzveig]

Thanks for the clarification. So where do I set the sort order of the backlog/active sprint?
And can I do it in a way that I can easily switch back and forth between rank order and priority order?
 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The sort order is set in the board's filter.  So there's no way to change the sort order quickly.

[Jackie Rosenzveig]

Yes, I just worked that out 

I've now created two personal boards - one for sorting by priority and another for viewing by rank.

Seems really inefficient. What's really lacking is a treeview setup where you can easily click on column headers to sort by rank, priority, status, owner (or ideally any other field I might choose to have as a column header) 

Thanks for your help & quick responses!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can do that - try the issue navigator!

[Jackie Rosenzveig]

Yes, but I want this sort order in my backlog view, so I can view the top issues, select multiple and assign them to the current (or another defined) sprint.

But thanks for trying  

[Tom Winans]

Couldn't agree more with the Jackie's needs. Would look forward to a solution to this!

[Juanma Cordoba]

Is there any solution on 2020 for this need?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No.

I don't think Atlassian are going to do this, because if you sort by something other by ranking, it's impossible to rank issues in a way most people will understand.

[Cindy Daugherty]

I have to chime in. Atlassian gives us many fields but the reality is we move the work i the priority order we need it to be.  I need a simple detailed printed report in MY order and it can't do this.  I have tried multiple things.  Aside from doing alot of extra work to assign priority numbers (which would change regularly) I cannot get this.  I can print my screen but there is no way to get a nice formatted detail report.

[Aleksander Altberg]

Yay more awful Jira UX that hasn't been addressed in over 4 years!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Um, "give people the option to break things and then complain that stuff doesn't work"?  Is that really a good UX?

[Aleksander Altberg]

When baseline, fundamental features are blindingly non-intuitive to use and set up, then yeah it's a UX issue.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What is being asked for here is not a "fundamental feature" it.  If it were implemented, it would be described as a "bug" or "design flaw" because it stops it all from working.

Implementing something that breaks your system is inarguably poor UX.

[Aleksander Altberg]

I think you may have fundamentally misunderstood my point.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That is entirely possible.

My understanding of your point is that it is a poor user experience to not be able to configure a system so that it does not work.  

[Dan Breyen]

Sounds like this one has been resolved.