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How to show the newly created issue on top of the Board instead of the bottom?

Sachin Rohra May 1, 2025

When users create a new issue, I want it to show up at the top of the Board and not at the Bottom. Later, if I change the priority of the issue, it should stay as-is and not change based on the applied Sort on the Board. Also, I tried using the Sort By Created DESC option, but it doesn't work. 

 

Project Type: Team-managed-project; Software-project; Jira-cloud.

 

Any ideas to achieve the above?

 

 

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Dick
Community Champion
May 2, 2025

Hi @Sachin Rohra 

The backlog isn't just a list of work items. It's a ranked list by the product owner, who carefully puts the most pressing matter at the top of the backlog, which signals the to the team: this has to be done first for either:

1) The next sprint (in case of Scrum) or

2) When taking on new work items (Kanban).

So it is quite essential not to screw-up the ranking at the top of the backlog: Hence the Atlassian Developers have programmed it so that new work items have the lowest ranking and appear at the bottom of the backlog. It is intentional, and not meant to screw you over.

Kind regards,
Dick

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Dilip
Atlassian Team
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May 2, 2025

it's not possible with the Team-managed project board directly, but you can create a custom filter that sorts issues by creation date and use this filter to view issues in the desired order outside of the board view.

like below board filter query: 

project = "TEST" ORDER BY createdDate ASC

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