I don't want my Jira Kanban board to reorder after I open and close an issue.

[James Haluszczak]

I have search atlassian support and cannot find any documentation on stopping this reorganization of the swim lanes on the board after I open and close an issue. How do I stop this function? And why would this function even exist?

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi James - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Check the filter used by the board to see if there is an ORDER BY - it may say by Rank.

If you want EVERY column to be ordered by Key then add that to the end of your filter - ORDER BY KEY.

But you will lose the ability to drag cards up or down to change the priority. 

[James Haluszczak]

Thanks, we found that we were using "Last Opened" in the query. We removed and it solved our problem.

[John Funk]

Great! Glad you got it solved!

[Carla Ann Rowland]

The Swim lanes are based by default on the queries that run the swim lane and usually is defaulted to priority.  I suggest making a filter for each swim lane and have the sorting by rank and see if that fixes it for you.

The Swimlanes can also be ordered by Stories, Assignees, epics, or projects.  Might make check to see there is not a conflict between a column filter vs. swimlane. 

[James Haluszczak]

Thank you for responding, can I simply sort them by issue number?

[Carla Ann Rowland]

yes order by key will do that for you when part of the query. If you have multiple sort items the first item after order by is first sort key.