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Mark
Mark

Reputation: 11

Sort board backlog column

I am trying to transition my team over to using boards to track work items.

Currently it seems the default ordering of backlog work items is oldest to newest created. I would like to be able to choose the reverse sorting without manually updating the backlog.

Is this possible?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9339

Answers (4)

Francesco B.
Francesco B.

Reputation: 3107

Yep, that's a long-awaited feature that for some reason doesn't get any attention.
There's a 2-click workaround though, as explained here.

Go to the top-right corner, click on the kebab menu (the vertical three-dot one) and select "query".
You'll be redirected automatically to a fully sortable "backlog".

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Upvotes: 0

JustMe
JustMe

Reputation: 218

Go to the Backlog tab at the top (next to Taskboard) and drag and drop work items.

Upvotes: 0

insyzygy
insyzygy

Reputation: 11

You cannot sort the rows in Backlog view but you CAN sort, by Title for example, in Work Items view.

Upvotes: 1

Flex
Flex

Reputation: 577

The ordering is by "Backlog priority". The higher a work item is on the backlog, the higher its priority. This is due to the basic assumptions of agile development to always work on highest priority items first (take the item on top).

When you add items to the backlog you can choose where to add it in the list (top, selected item, bottom). On boards you can configure if you just want to reflect the priority from the board or if you want to allow reordering.

To answer your question: No, you cannot just change the ordering direction.

Upvotes: 1

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