Are we really living in 2025 and there is still no way to update the rank of a Jira ticket via automation?  So many good use cases listed here already...

You should use this answer on this post as a workaround

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-questions/Re-Re-Automation-How-to-change-issue-Rank-to-the-highest/qaq-p/2684374/comment-id/10284#M10284

A component within automation to adjust rank to top of backlog, bottom of backlog, or relative to a selected ticket would be very helpful!

This would be a really handy feature to add to automation. However it should not only focus on a "Send to top" option, but also on a "Send to bottom" option within a sprint. 

We like to move the stories/issues with the status Done to the bottom, but we have to do it manually at the moment. 

+1 - need a way to automate based on conditions the move of new tickets to the board from the backlog of a Team-managed project (Software Management)

this is needed!

Our use case is that we want things to keep on moving in a sprint and not get stuck due to new priorities.

So our todo lane is ordered by priority, but once an issue gets resolved it should move to the bottom of that column, so that the first resolved issue gets tested first and the last gets tested last.
Then when re-opened it should move to the top of that column, so that issues that have been worked on will get continued before starting new issues.

Once an issue is in progress the first time, it's done by the priority of that issue.
If an issue actually gets more priority and needs to be tested first, people can always manually move it back to top.

An automation would be really desired
Rules we'd be adding;

• Issue from in progress to resolved -> move to bottom
• issue from resolved, testing, reviewing to open -> move to top

I second everything everyone has said. A way to "move issue" to a different location based on a field or other would be great!

I work at John Deere and this typoe of automation option would help my teams a LOT.

I would love to hear about this when released please:
AnamiTatianadasGracasL@JohnDeere.com

thanks!

This would be super helpful for us. We have a lot of tickets that get submitted by various members of the company, and automatically sending them to the bottom of the backlog would keep the top of my backlog in nice priority order.