How to have a story be ordered under the epic when created?

[Jessica Zhang]

When creating a story linked to an epic, I'd want the story to be ordered under the epic instead of being created to the bottom of the board.

In the context of the attached photo, the build epic is much higher in the board. When I create the task under the build epic, I don't like that it gets created at the bottom of the board and then I have to manually move it up to the build section. Since our swimlanes are already categorized by project, I can't use swimlanes to do this.

I also use JIRA automation if there is a way to do this using that plugin.

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Jessica,

Thank you for reaching out.

In order to display your Stories under their respective Epics in your board without using swimlanes, you can use the Order by Epic Name parameter in the board query, secondly using the Order by Epic Link. These would be the steps:

- Navigate to your board > Board settings > Edit Board query

- Add the following to your board filter:

ORDER BY "Epic Name", "epic link"

The query above will order the stories under their respective Epics.

If you are currently ordering your issues by Rank, you can use the rank order above them all like this:

ORDER BY rank, "Epic Name", "epic link"

Let me know if this information helps.