Custom Issue Order

Hello,

I just test installed the plugin.

But how can I use it?

I don't see any difference in the issue navigator how to order the issues.

Cheers

Bettina Zucker 

Many thanks for this one, simple yet very useful! I've been testing it out for our backlog prioritization (100+ items). Only thing i'm missing is having an option to move an issue straight to the top/bottom and up/down 5 steps. Currently it's very painful when nudging a new high priority issue 100 times upwards...

We just installed the plug in too.  I am not sure how to use it

Great update on the plugin!

Its going to save us a great deal of time.

Assuming you have the plugin installed, the following steps demonstrate how I go the plugin up and working...

Step 1 : Install the plugin according to the instructions

Step 2 : Use Administration Section and select Custom Fields from the Issue Fields header on the left. 

Step 3 : Select Add Custom Field (I named my field "Rank") and associate the Issue Ordering field with the appropriate issue types and projects.

Step 4 : In the Administration Section select Navigator Columns from the Issue Fields header on the left. Add your new field to the default issue navigator fields using the Add New Column pull down. I also, Ordered my column to the first position.

Step 5 : When viewing a filter that includes the Issue Ordering field, you have to sort by that field in order to shift the ordering.

The beta-3 version allow you to move an issue to a particular row by typing the row number. If I want the last item on the list to move to the 3rd row, I just type "3" into the field and hit enter. Saves a TON of time!

Thanks,

Jochen

Awesome - it really works!

Is it possible to set editable rightsfor that Order Field?
We would like to set up as adminstrator a ranking of issues which shouldn't be changed by anyone else.

Right now, every single user can modifiy any order list. It would be great if some views/order lists wouldn't be editable for anone.

Regards,
Ivan

Hello Jochen, thanks for writing this plugin, we have wanted to be able to rank issues this way for a while, so this fits the bill for us.

A few comments and suggestions:

• The installation instructions above are for confluence plugins, not jira,
• I agree with Ivan's suggestion of having rights to restrict who can edit ordering. A user who doesn't know any better might play with the ordering, especially since the option to reorder is so obvious when they view a sorted filter
• I'm not sure how to easily change the ranking of items that appear on different pages of a list. For example, if there are 200 items, I might look at the third page (items 41-60), but I can't move one of those items to appear on the first page. Maybe I'm missing something in the way this works.

I attached a patch that I tried to email to Jochen's email addy at sourceforge but it bounced.  Basically I needed something like this but a little different:

• Easily editable numerical custom field
• Values are absolute priorities such that re-orderings can done while filtering if you know the semantics of the values for the entire project/version/ whatever.
• exportable via excel
• change history stored

I added another custom field and action that got me what I needed but it was highly derivative of what was already here.

I have installed the plugin and created a field rank. In the detailled issue view I see that each issue displays an individual rank number. The field is not editable. I then configure my Issue Navigator to show the rank column (I tried this as user and as administrator). When I switch to the issue navigator I do not see the column called rank. Any idea what the problem might be?

I'm having the same issue as Andreas, the field is not editable.  I can't customize the order. 

Patched Jira Custom order plugin  - with opportunity set order within priority (example - blocker -1,2,3, critical - 1,2 ...)

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Hi, should the plugin work with version 3.13.2? . . . This is such a useful enhancement, yet I followed instructions to the tee and "Rank" field in navigator column does not provide a means of moving the issue up/down, nor does it provide a means of adding desired order position?  It behaves as if the plugin weren't installed at all . . . Appreciate your thoughts.

Hi, Jochen,

thank you in advance for a brilliant custom field.

I'm trying to extend your plugin and want to create a possibility to create order for issue within the specified filter(with specified filterId), i.e issue will be able to have different orders for different filters. Could you hint me where in your functionality I should apply changes to achieve that. Is it possible to do that?

it seems the issue ordering plug-in re-ranks for each page in a navigator view.  for instance if you have 4 pages with 182 items on it, it does not rank them 1-182, but rather 1- 50 or however you're displaying on a page, and then starts over with 1 on the next page.  am i missing something here?

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. Is there a way to change the default # of issues that the navigator shows?

Hi there,

I've got the same problem like Sally and John spencer, but I'd like to add something about it. How can I "restart" the ID ordering sequence, is it possible?

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks a lot

I ran into a problem in which several issues got the same rank number, e.g.404302. When this happens, the ranks of those issues cannot be changed nor moved up/down.

Does anyone else have this kind of problem? Is there a way to fix this?

This happens on 47 of 1356 unique rank numbers. The 47 unique rank numbers were assigned to 233 issues. I am concerned that the number will get worse over time.

I'm thinking about renumbering the duplicate ranks, but if there were a bug that caused the problem, eventually the symptom will recur.

Thank you. Any insight is appreciated.

Hi, I have a question. I have understood that the order is "per filter". So if the issue xxx-123 is position number 5 for filter "All issues in status 'in progress' " it could be in position number 9 for filter "all unresolved issues". This is reasonable because the order is relative. My question is: is there a possibility to be notified that the issues order in a filter has been changed?
This is important because if a customer gives to you a list of issues with a certain order and then he has the possibility to change that order we have to be aware of this change.

Hi,
which permission the user has to have in order to modify the issue order? I tried and I got the error

"Cannot change issue order
You don't have permission to update issue 'xxx-6632'."