Order by rank

[Hari Prasath P]

I am little confused how the 'order by rank' works in JIRA projects. On what basis the values are assigned when using 'order by rank asc'?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

There is a (mostly hidden) field called "global rank".  If you re-rank things (usually by moving them on a board), then that field is updated, and that's what Jira sorts on when you use "order by rank".  New issues automatically take a new rank at the bottom of the pile when created.

[Phyllis Chang]

Is rank something anyone can change through their own scrum boards or kanban boards, or through "portfolio plan" view? Is there a way to restrict ranking to certain user group?

[Ken]

Legend, thanks @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

[Nick Bruse]

I was trying to resolve this issue as well. These answers above unfortunately only game me half the story. I hope the solution below helps

So I would suggest rather than using 

ORDER BY RANK DESC

which uses the Global Rank Setting you instead use 

ORDER BY priority DESC

I achieved this by trial and error but finally found this in the documentation here https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/enable-ranking/

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There is no "issue" here, it was a question about how ranking works.

Changing the order to look at priority disables ranking, making the backlog and board a lot less useful.

[Farrah Greig]

Thank you Nic.  This helped me. I wanted to sort my board by priority, not rank. 

[Scott Theus]

Hi @Hari Prasath P,

Here is some documentation that may help:

Ranking an Issue

-Scott

[Hari Prasath P]

Hi @Scott Theus,

Thanks a lot. The link was useful to know how ranking works. But, I had few doubts regarding the changes in issues rank. So, referred this link and got it cleared.

Cheers,

Hari Prasath P

[Miguel_Angel_Arjona_Garcia]

Thanks @Scott Theus the documentation referenced was very useful for me, and saves lots for time I was expending manually sorting issues in my Kanban board.  Good reference !!