How do I make it so my task automatically order themselves by due date?

[Kelly Wheatley]

I cannot figure out how to organize my task so that when I add a due date it will chronologically order them for me. 

Can someone give me step by step instructions on what to do? And where to go, please. 

This is the homepage of my Jira Board: 

If I go to "configure board" this is what I come to:

Then I click on "custom filters":

This is the filter I have added myself, but it still doesn't work. 

Thanks, 

Kelly Wheatley

[Mathias Richter · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kelly Wheatley 

Jira boards order tasks by "Rank". The item you need to do first is (manually) moved to the top of the cards in each column. It's done this way because teams working using agile methods (e.g. Scrum) usually plan their work as a team and order the work by their defined criticality during this planning activity. 

If you want to order tasks by the Due Date, you can use lists (left in the navigation - right below the boards). You can order lists by columns.

BR - @Mathias Richter 

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

Use a filter like this... assignee = currentuser() order by duedate

note that boards are not the best means of viewing issues by dudate IMO

[Kelly Wheatley]

Where do I put that filter in at? I tried adding it like I showed above. It didn't work. Am I supposed to add the filter somewhere else?

[Jack Brickey]

In fact it will not, sorry. As @Mathias Richter pointed out ordering on boards is only by rank and this cannot be overridden. You could create a swimlane for "due this week" or similar if that would help. Or you could set card colors by queries that involve dates.

[Kelly Wheatley]

Okay. How do I create the card colors?

[Jack Brickey]

 😣 well I see you are on TMP project so you cannot. That is only CMP feature.

[Mathias Richter]

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/customize-cards/ explains how to change card colors (and other settings). (Edit: Yes, only company-managed projects)

This page explains, how to create a JQL query (it's like a search statement) to search for specific issues with specific field values (e.g. where the Due Date is near, within 7 days, overdue, or anything similar): https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/use-advanced-search-with-jira-query-language-jql/