How to reorder tasks under a parent epic

[Will Ferry]

Hello,

I have an epic template with 17 template tasks as children under it.

The tasks are in order of sequence so, in effect, it becomes a checklist.

Someone has used this template to create an Epic and now wants to add another task in the middle of the others. 

Is there a way to insert tasks between existing ones in a template?

Otherwise the only alternative is to:

1) Remove the tasks up until the one I want to add

2) Add the new task(s)

3) Add the old tasks afterwards.

If there is a better way of doing this, I'm all ears!

[Chris Buzon]

There are a lot of ways this could be interpreted - but if you mean while you're looking at a board, you need to use "ORDER BY RANK ASC" (or DESC) in order to allow drag and drop ranking/ordering.

If you mean somewhere else - like just when you're viewing the Epic in a query result screen, or in Edit view, you'll have to specify a bit more.

[Will Ferry]

 

Hi Chris. I'm a relatively new JIRA user, but this is what I'd like to do. I'm showing an example of an epic with 5 tasks. I'd like to insert another one in between Task 1 and 2. Now imagine that this is list of 20 tasks and each one has a long title and description. 

We try and order the tasks so that the work in the epic follows a logical flow. If I want to add a new task, I can do so by clicking the "+" button, but it will appear at the end and will be out of order.

I'm wondering if there is an insert function somewhere.

[Chris Buzon]

Oh!
In Team Managed Projects (look in the bottom left of the screen to check) you just drag and drop them to re-order them.  Just create a new ticket, then pull it into the order you want.

In a Company managed project (I suspect you're in one of those) you would do this from the backlog view.  I have a backlog/board that sees the child tasks, and the query for it is "ORDER BY RANK ASC", so when I move up/down the individual task tickets, they appear re-ordered in the Epic.

Hopefully these help.  (so TLDR, do that from a backlog that can see those tickets, AND has "ORDER BY RANK" enabled on the query", then just drag it into the position you want).

[Will Ferry]

Okay thanks for posting that. That's very helpful. I took the screenshot and shared it with our admin. She tells me that it looks like you are using the Jira cloud version where as we are using the data center version. On my screen (see above), there doesn't appear to be "Order By" or the "...".  Can you confirm this?

[Chris Buzon]

Order by is used by boards / query filters to display ticket in a backlog.  You're using a different view - I don't think you have the option there, and I'm afraid I am not sure how Data center does this. I assume it can be done from a backlog specifically, but I very well could be wrong. Cloud may be different.  Sorry I could not help more.

[Chris Buzon]

You may want to change the tags on this post too, that could get help from someone who knows Datacenter. You're tagged as cloud at the moment.

EDIT - I changed the tag to datacenter

[Will Ferry]

Okay thank you for your help! I checked and the tag has been changed to "datacenter" so hopefully someone else using data center will chime in.