Order backlog by custom-field value?

[Carlos Diaz]

Order backlog by custom-field value?

[Tony Nerd]

Problem: Business has lots of Epics (about 70). Each Epic have cf "% Priority" number field from 0 to 100.
Is there any possibility to sort them via drag and drop in backlog and automaticaly change value of this cf ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, sorting is not ranking - remember that if you have two issues with priority of 60%, there's no difference between them.  You can sort, of course.

[antonyneshore]

But how to resolve this issue ?

Any addon or script or what ?

Example, backlog, 70 issues with % priority values.

Epic 1 with %priority 10

Epic 2 with %priority 20

Epic 3 with %priority 30

When I move issue Epic 3 upper value of % priority changes from 30 to 20, and Epic 2 will have %priority 30

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm not aware of anything that would do that in the backlog, because a backlog is ranked, not graded or sorted, and that would break it.

You could find or write something that understands your sequencing and presents it to you in a list format.  Comala Canvas can do something like this I think.

[antonyneshore]

So, sorting this way can lead to errors in lexorank ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, it won't cause errors.  It just stops you ranking things.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can sort it by a custom field value, just add "order by <field>" to your board query, instead of "order by rank".

But you won't be able to rank the issues if you do it.