Rank a work item
Rank your work items to organize your team's tasks more effectively. By ranking work items, you actually arrange them according to their relative importance or urgency. For example, you have two work items that are of 'High' priority. With ranking, you can choose which of these two have a higher priority or ranking than the other.
When you rank a work item, you also change its relative priority in its current column and swimlane.
To rank a work item:
Navigate to the relevant project in your sidebar.
Navigate to the Backlog tab, Active sprints tab, Kanban backlog (if enabled), or Kanban board
Rank a work item by dragging and dropping it to a higher or lower position in the scrum or kanban backlog, or in a column in the Active sprints tab or Kanban board view.
Important things to note
You can only rank work items if ranking has been enabled (see Enabling ranking), and if you have the 'Schedule work item' and 'Edit work item' permissions for the work item you want to move.
When you move a work item from the scrum backlog to a sprint, and it's the first work item added to the sprint, the work item will retain its rank. If other work item have already been added to the sprint, the ranking of the work item will be relative to the ranking of the other work items in the sprint.
In other words: work items are only re-ranked (upon being moved) when there are other work items to compare them with in the same sprint (or backlog) where they've been moved to. The idea is that rank is managed within a sprint (or backlog) itself, not across sprints.
If you're moving a work item from the backlog to an active sprint or your work-in-progress, and your board is using a ranking setting other than
ORDER BY Rank ASC, the work item is automatically ranked based on the filter query of your board. (See enabling ranking for more details.)You can use Keyboard Shortcuts 's' + 'b' to move a work item to the bottom of its current column, or 's' + 't' to move it to the top.
You can send multiple work items to the top or bottom of the backlog. Select the work items while holding the 'Shift' or 'Ctrl' key, and then right-click, then select Move work item, then select To top of backlog or To bottom of backlog.
When you rank a work item that has sub-tasks, all of the sub-tasks are automatically moved with the work item.
Sub-task work items can only be ranked in relation to their 'sibling' work items.
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