Feature request: a better way to reorder epics

[Gerrie Kimpen]

Reordering a large set of epics (50) is very time consuming in the current implementation: drag-edge-bounce-scroll all your epics across the map.

Maybe add a pop-up dedicated to the task of reordering epics.

[Nick Muldoon [Easy Agile]]

Hi Gerrie, thanks for the suggestion.

Would it be appropriate to have a keyboard shortcut similar to the 's' + 't' for send to top? Alternatively, perhaps a zoom function so you can see the whole / more of the story map?

Thanks Gerrie, and thanks for the screenshots via support as well, gives great context!

Regards,
Nick Muldoon
Product Manager, Easy Agile 

[Evan Goldin]

Any update on this? I have like 75 epics on my roadmap, and when I add new ones, they're added to the bottom. Dragging and dropping is not a good way to manage the order here. 

[Nick Muldoon [Easy Agile]]

Hi @Evan Goldin,

Nothing new to report at this stage I'm sorry to say.

I'm still in information acquisition mode:

• what sort of behaviour would be make reordering a large number of epics easier for you?
• how often do you reorder existing epics, vs new ones you are creating?
• does narrowing down by Quick Filter* and then reordering make life easier?

Thanks Evan,
Nick

* Quick Filters are only availabe on the JIRA Server version due to JSWCLOUD-7393

[Evan Goldin]

Hey Nick, thanks for the reply. All I'm asking for is the same functionality we have when ordering tasks, stories and bugs: A "send to stop" or "Send to bottom" feature. Even better would be a bulk way to do it (like being able to hold down shift or command and select multiple), but even just doing one quickly would be a huge step up. 

I have close to 100 epics now, and I want them to be ordered in order of priority. But to adjust that priority, I have to drag and drop each one manually. And it's not fast to do that. 

Perhaps I could actually use the priority field itself for priority? I wouldn't be able to get very granular (P0-P4), but that would be better than what I do today. Will the epics drawer on the sprint board respect priority? 

I'm constanatly re-ordering epics. 

I'm using Jira Cloud, so I don't think I can use Quick Filters?

[Nick Muldoon [Easy Agile]]

Hi @Evan Goldin,

Just a quick update here - we have a story on the backlog for the 'Send to top' / 'Send to bottom' functionality. I'll follow up here when we provide that.

Since August we've introduced a smoother way to drag and scroll to place epics. I understand it will still be time consuming with 100 epics, yet hopefully an improvement nonetheless.

Thanks for the feedback, greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Nick Muldoon
Product Manager, Easy Agile