Can the scrum board be rearranged?

[Gergely Groupama]

Hi,

Is it possible to rearrange the "sections" (marekd with the red boxes in the picture below) on a kanban board?

What determines the order in which they appear? - It doesn't appear to be number of issues, alphabetical order or anthing else that I notice.

Thanks in advance for your help!

:)

Gergely

[Gergely Groupama]

Thanks @Jack Brickey and @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- for the attempted answers but I am not looking for the ordering of the individual tickets that is indeed determined by the filter query. I am looking for the ordering principal between the sections the tickets are in (as per the screenshot above) in this case the sprints.

As I am looking at it right now, it seems the ordering is based on the end date of the sprints. The top one is the one that ends soonest and the third one from the top is the active sprint that ends latest. Then comes the inactive sprint and then the backlog.

So, if this is correct, then changing the sprint end dates should rearrange the board. I'll check.

[Jack Brickey]

no in fact, it is ordered in the order the sprints were created. The dates have no impact.

[Jack Brickey]

And if you simply want to reorder the content between sprints simply drag&drop. 

[Gergely Groupama]

yes, my tinkering has proven that theory to be false... :) We have a new working theory, but as I am too lazy to create a new board to test it, I will see in when our release trains change in a few weeks.

Now we think the order is determined by the ID of the sprints, which seems to be a numeric value that we can find through the issue navigator. We'll see.

"and they order who created the sprints." I'm not sure I understand this. Can you clarify what you mean, please.

[Jack Brickey]

Sorry, voice dictation failed me. I have corrected. Yes the sprint ID which is an artifact of the order created. 

question: why are you wanting to re-order?

As my subsequent response implies, if the reason is associated with the content of the sprints then simply rearrange the content of the sprints using drag and drop or multiselect and right click to specify the sprint to move issues into.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Hi Gergely,

The backlog is sorted by the "order by" given in the board filter. 

In some boards, it really is a saved filter in use, so you can edit it.  The default for these is "project = <something> order by rank".  In other boards, you can't edit the filter.

Note that if you change a filter to order by anything other than rank, you can no longer rank issues in the backlog or board.  The main point of the backlog is for ranking issues so you can decide what to do next.

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Gergely Groupama , the order is defined by the filter of the board. For example if your filter includes "ORDER by Priority DESC" then the issues will be order by priority in descending order. Issues of the same priority will be ordered by the issuekey. If you wish to manually rearrange issues then order by rank - ORDER BY Rank ASC