Enable ranking

Enabling ranking allows you to rank work items on a board by drag-and-drop, and to create sprints on Scrum boards. It also enables Jira to group sub-tasks together underneath their parent work item.

By default, ranking is enabled on company-managed boards.

Before you begin

To configure the board and any of its settings, you must be either:

• a project administrator for the location of the board

• a board administrator for the board itself

See Permissions overview for more information.

Enabling ranking

To enable ranking:

1. Go to your board, then select more () > Configure board.

2. Click the Add Rank button.

The filter for your board will be updated to order by Rank. This will affect all boards using this filter.

You can also rank work items by other work item properties — for example, priority or issuetype:

Notes:

• Jira automatically creates a custom field called Rank, of type Global Rank. Please ensure that your Jira instance contains only one custom field called Rank, and that the Rank field is assigned to the global context (i.e. not to specific work items or projects).

• When ranking is enabled for Scrum projects, you can:

  • move work items from your Scrum backlog to relevant sprint sections

  • rank work items within currently active sprints and sprints being planned out

• When ranking is enabled for Kanban projects, you can: 

  • move work items from your Kanban backlog to your work-in-progress section

  • rank work items within your Kanban board and the work-in-progress section in your Kanban backlog

• When using a ranking setting other than ORDER BY Rank ASC, and moving work items from the backlog to relevant sections, the work items are automatically ranked based on the filter query of your board.

• The Rank clause is case sensitive.