Get sprint issues via REST API while preserving swimlane order?

[elventails]

Hi,

Any way to pull swimlane issues with their visually sorted order? (e.g. useful when visual sorting order is used to indicate priority vs assigning a priority field)

Jira must track that internally but I can't seem to find the field in the API results - does it get passed?

Thanks!

[Kat Warner]

"Rank" is the invisible field that is used when sorting issues on kanban and scrum boards. Hopefully having the name of the field will make it easier for you to find.

[elventails]

Thanks Kat, 

It seems this is a relatively open / unhandled question, here's some info from other posts I reference below:

- the rank is stored in the customfield_10019 field

- the rank is stored in a format called "Lexorank"

- Each story in Jira has a 'rank-field' containing a string which is built up of 3 parts: <bucket>|<rank>:<sub-rank>

So we probably could sort on that! (don't have the time to check this further now, but hope this helps the next person!)

## References

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-get-the-rank-with-Jira-API/qaq-p/583700

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-see-numeric-rank-order-for-an-issue/qaq-p/611802

https://medium.com/whisperarts/lexorank-what-are-they-and-how-to-use-them-for-efficient-list-sorting-a48fc4e7849f

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40718900/jiras-lexorank-algorithm-for-new-stories