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Ranking an issue alters its relative priority within its current column and swimlane. Ranking your issues helps you to organise tasks in your product/sprint backlog more effectively.

Rankings allow you to prioritise issues at a more granular level than issue priorities in JIRA, as rankings can help you to determine whether a single issue is more important/urgent than another single issue. For example, you may have two separate issues which both have a priority of 'Major'. Using GreenHopper ranking, you can assign one of the issues a higher ranking than the other.

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To rank an issue:

  1. Click the Agile link's down-arrow in the top navigation bar, select Rapid Board, then select your preferred Rapid Board from the resulting dropdown menu.

  2. Click Work to go to Work mode.
  3. Rank an issue by dragging and dropping it to a higher or lower position within its current column (see screenshot 1 below).

(tick) You can also use Keyboard Shortcuts 's' + 'b' to move an issue to the bottom of its current column, or 's' + 't' to move it to the top.

(info) Please note:

  • You can only rank issues if ranking has been enabled — see Enabling Ranking.
  • You can only rank issues if you have the 'Schedule Issue' permission for the issue you want to move higher or lower on your Rapid Board.
  • If an issue has subtasks that are in the same column and swimlane as itself, the subtasks will be shown in a group below the issue.
    • When you rank an issue that has subtasks, all of the subtasks that are currently grouped with that issue will be automatically moved with it.
    • Sub-task issues can only be ranked in relation to their 'sibling' issues.



Screenshot 1: Dragging and Dropping an Issue within a Column

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