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I would love if I can reorder the links in Project Shortcuts. If not manual reorder, at least sort it A-Z. Currently the links are added by order of creation.
Would like this because some links are logically related, and some more important than others and should therefore be at the beginning of the list.
This is the Project Shortcuts I'm referring to
This is for JIRA Server and JIRA Cloud.
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JRACLOUD-69163 Ability to configure and add more links/shortcuts to the main Sidebar
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JRACLOUD-69088 As an Admin I would like the ability to rearrange the project sidebar shortcuts including the system shortcuts
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[JRASERVER-66193] Improve Project Shortcuts with reorder
Hi All, as an update this functionality has been released as part of Jira 9.11. It allows reordering shortcuts with drag and drop or with the move up/move down buttons in the shortcut menu. Thanks for your patience.
Status just changed to "Waiting for Release". Don't toy with us...what does that mean?
When will it be available? How does it work? So many questions. So excited to see it in action!
It's not that hard, right? And benefit is obvious - increased productivity, because most used stuff is at the top, new users can see it more easily...
I'm sorry but if you can't get obvious and simple stuff like this done in a timely fashion, something has gone wrong in your org.
Maybe put whoever is in charge of sending spam about events and tips for how to manage my team in charge of implementing improvements to the system itself. They seem to be working overtime.
This will never happen, as you can not earn etra money with that.... very disappointed about this company policy.
how many years should users politely click +1 and thumbs up and thanks for? It has been 6
Peter Foti - neat workarond.
After I added the comment about the database table I realized that theoretically one could update the DB to change the ids on the rows, so long as the all the ids stayed the same. But I wouldn't do that without stopping Jira, so not much of a workaround
I once wrote a Chrome Extension (not published) that would grab the .project-shortcuts-list, get the .project-shortcut list items within that list into an array, sort them alphabetically based on their innerText, and then for each of those, append them to the .projects-shortcuts-list (which would move their position), and then append the remaining list item (which contains the .project-shortcut-add link) so that it was the last item in the list again. I lost that extension when my hard drive died, but the code was fairly straightforward. If I recall, I had to check for the .project-shortcuts-list in a setTimeout every 200ms or so because it loaded the links in after the initial page render (there may be a better way, though, if there's any event triggered, but it was a quick and dirty solution that just worked, so I never investigated too deeply). Maybe someday I'll recreate the magic and publish it (since Atlassian doesn't seem to be paying any attention to this).
I suspect that the shortcuts are displayed in order of their ids ascending in the table AO_550953_SHORTCUT
and unfortunately that table does not have a SEQUENCE field to allow for reordering
@DonSafranek - Thank you very much. What you're saying makes sense. I'll give it try!
@Stephanie, I have not experienced random ordering/reordering. My "system" is simply a text file (actually OneNote) with my Shortcut names and URL's and some efficient copy and paste work. The last time I had to do this was both an addition and removal (same # of shortcuts in the end) so I just Edited each existing shortcut with the 'new' name and URL. Give that a try and see if it helps your situation.
Hi Don, Even if I delete and recreate the shortcuts - they seem to "just sort themselves" whereever/whichever way they want to in the list (I cannot seem to get control of the order). Do you have a trick (or some tricks) as to how you make them stay in the order you want? Do they ever seem to go rogue? Thank you.
Unfortunately, I've gotten deleting shortcuts and recreating them in a new order down to a science. I have to do this almost every time I add a new one and it's a pain in the posterior. Come on Atlassian... you can do better.
Yes please. We're also missing this feature.
It should be the same as in Confluence. I mean it's from the same company, isn't it?
For all of those eagerly waiting, it might be worth taking a look at Admin Toolbox. Among many other smart features, drag and drop reordering for project shortcuts was shipped with the latest release. Disclaimer: I'm part of the team behind the aforementioned app.
Forced ordering (E.G. A-Z) makes it worse, as I can at least, by changing the order in which I add them, determine a good order:
For one project, I need (Alphabetical would screw that up):
Overview
Initial phase
Mid phase
Closing phases
The only solution that would help would be to be able to drag and drop.
We use the shortcuts all the time and being able to reorder them is critical to their usefulness. Rather than an alphabetical sort which requires creative naming conventions I want the ability to simply manually move them up/down in the list - whether that be via drag/drop; a right click to Move Up/Down or some other similar method.
This seems like low hanging fruit that would make Jira users very happy. If it's more complex please indicate that so we can adjust our expectations.
I'm seconding this request. We do have more than a dozen useful project links. To us it would be useful to further categorize the links into folders.
Jira is so close to being useful sometimes. It's like they just stop short of it every time though. They don't care to take that extra step.
For reals, is there anyone from the Jira development team I can talk to? Can we have a call, an interview, or a seminar explaining why usability features like these are not prioritized? Can we get any kind of acknowledgement? I'm serious. Someone on the Jira team reads these comments and we rarely hear from them. Tickets are closed without any good explanation. What is being prioritized and why is it more important than making Jira more adaptable to centralized task management and what teams actually want to use Jira for?
Don't care about style changes. Don't care about a new analytics tool. Not until Jira does the basic tasks we want it to do.
Communicate. Be better.
Why would anyone develop a shortcuts sidebar in the first place that can't be rearranged? Why purposely design something to be partially functional?
I'd like to be able to arrange most things in the sidebar, to be quite frank. We have like 30 addons for some reason and being able to put the important ones at the top or just hide the ones our team doesn't use would be glorious. is there an open issue for that? I'd really like to vote for it.
Don't forget to use the links to vote for the cloud feature, too.
+1 I really don't want to delete all my shortcuts just so I can re-add in alphabetical order
+1. Current ordering on Jira Cloud seems random - it's not alphabetical nor the order in which the shortcuts were added. So there isn't even a workaround.
Definitely would be very nice and intuitively feels like it should be there. If it is complicated / would take a long time to do, a nice temporary workaround would be if we could have it defaulted to order alphabetically so that we could force the order that way.
Hi Atlassian team, this functionality would greatly assist my customers with the ability to quickly access and choose the relevant link / shortcut rather than having to scroll through the listed options.
Lets get it moving as there seems to be interest and a requirement.
This is an important feature for folks NEW to Jira. Allowing Jira Project Admins (Scrum Masters, Product Owners) to change order can be very helpful when introducing whole teams to Jira. Please accelerate this feature.
I would really like this feature to be implemented too! It's such a hassle to have to delete and re-create these just to reorder the list
Raised 3 years ago and still not implemented. Something as basic as this should be quick to implement and make our lives much easier.
Agreed. Trying to PoC a new service desk in Jira and would be helpful for the team to see listed links based on our priority.
This feature would be very helpful for certain projects that have many shortcuts.
We started with Jira, but if there is no response from a supplier on a feature request like this for 3 years I think we should reconsider.
Come on Atlassian, such a simple change and it's been two years, you've never looked at it!
Came up for us this week too. Chronological order is of no value add, alphabetical as a default would be better than chronologically and ability to CHOOSE the sort would be ideal.
Came up this week as a user request of ours as well. Had to have them remove all the links to reorder them, and ask them to vote on this. Would be a great feature to add!
3bc44279ee5c, similar improvements for Jira Cloud have been requested as JRACLOUD-69088 and JRACLOUD-69163. I don't know whether Jira Cloud managers at Atlassian look at JRASERVER issues nowadays.
We have Jira Core and Confluence on Cloud.
Confluence pages can be order by drag & drop, so is user friendly!
I do not understand why on Jira Cloud this settings aren't applied to shortcuts too (add item menu on project)!
Is so annoying, this menus do not respect any normal order, even I numbering them (01. menu1, 02. menu2...etc) do not respect the order.
We have 10 shortcuts per project (connected links) and almost every reload they change the order. Is this a Atlassian joke?
Please solve this annoying setting, it eat important time for us!
+1. Having to delete and re-add all the shorts in reverse order to get them sorted is a PITA.
+1. Very useful when an important new board is created to be able to add a link to this board on top.
+1. The workaround to delete and re-enter the links is too cumbersome. At the same time it is really important to sort / group these links correctly for easy user consumption
+1 - I would like this feature as my OCDness is getting the better of me stareing at how unorganized the links are. Even if using the confluence page ordering feature would be good idea.
+1 Please consider this, it would greatly help our team at NCI
+1 from me. Of all the many things Jira can do already, I would imagine this is a fairly straight-forward function. Sad it is not possible yet
+1 from me, this feature would allow better control for managing the links.
Cheers,
Alice
This request is closed.
I saw in this article's screenshots [Managing project shortcuts | Administering Jira applications Data Center and Server 9.12 | Atlassian Documentation|https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/managing-project-shortcuts-1252007988.html] a sort function seems to have been implemented meanwhile (as mentioned two comments below) - in my version it is not included but let's have our fingers crossed