Sort / Order by Status

[maxencetaieb]

Hi all,

When I sort by Status, the order is

1. Parking Lot
2. Delivery
3. Discovery
4. Ready for Delivery
5. Done

I think that Delivery should appear after Ready for Delivery. Is there a way to fix that?

[Chris Timms]

Similar request to this, to order by Now/Next/Later I've had to put a number in front of the title to order it properly

[Tanguy Crusson]

Hi @maxencetaieb There's no real concept of ordering for the Jira status unfortunately - it's a workflow and things don't have to be linear. If you want to do something like this I'd recommend creating a different field (a field of type "Select") to represent status if that's an option for you. However if you'd still prefer to use the Jira status field, know that you can still create a board where the columns are from that field - and you can reorder these columns to match how you want to see them.

@Chris Timms are you using a Select field for Now/Next/Later? If so that should work out of the box: https://www.loom.com/share/3c3dbd135e194b5999e0d1194593142e - if that's not the case please let me know. 

Cheers,

Tanguy

[Chris Timms]

Hey @Tanguy Crusson , I managed to test this today and can confirm, I am a liar :D the sort order works as you described.

Regards,

-C

[Tanguy Crusson]

Hahaha well maybe you came across a temporary bug, it's been known to happen 😅

[David Moore]

Hi @Tanguy Crusson , I always thought you could define the status ordering in the Jira Cloud - Settings - Issues (Issues Attributes) - Statuses screen, using the up/down arrows to define the sorting order within the Status Category...well, it works when filtering & sorting there...

While I agree the workflow is not necessarily linear, I feel this is a good way to provide some control to ordering generally (i.e To Do -> In Progress -> Done makes sense right?) and inside those categories you should be able to generally say a queued idea is ready for design v's being actively designed...

I feel a similar approach in Product Discovery would add value...

[Sergey Shoshin]

Hm, yes, this Status ordering should work! the only problem is the uncomfortable way to change the order across dozens of statuses one by one.

[David Moore]

Ha! @Sergey Shoshin - I didn't say it was a good solution, just that native sort ordering on Status is available in Jira (in response to @Tanguy Crusson comment), it is indeed painful using the up / down arrows on single items at a time...

But its not something you do every day.

[Sergey Shoshin]

@Dav @Tanguy Crusson we can use 

GET https://wcloud.atlassian.net/secure/admin/StatusUp.jspa?up={StatusID}&atl_token={Auth Token}, same for "Down".

Request to automate sorting. For example, using Postman Run Collection N times. 

So, it can move status by dozens of positions in seconds.

[Sergey Shoshin]

Same question here. I think this is an important feature request to Atlassian.

• They can implement Status weights as other fields have.
• or they can implement this custom sorting using the Status Extra properties concept https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/use-workflow-properties/

Sounds like a super easy fix. But it might be possible that Atlassian waits for marketplace companies to close this gap and we will spend more and more money on random plugins.