Manually drag & drop tasks and sub-tasks when sorted
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Thierry Bechard
I use a date sorted view of my tasks for today, tomorrow etc. Sometimes I have a fairly long list of tasks for today. I'd like to be able to drag and drop and rearrange the tasks in order of importance. It can't be done now. But it would be a very useful feature.
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Maya Krampf
Yes, this is much needed! I use a date sort on my home screen so that I can see tasks by day, but for a given day there is no way to rearrange things.
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Greg McKibben
Any chance this will be implemented soon? It seems like such an easy fix and would greatly add to the functionality of the software.
Colleen Nickerson
100% agree to this - with ALL of the customizations of ClickUp, it's hard to believe this isn't a feature to be able to drag & drop tasks as you see fit without any specific sorting. I group tasks together in order of importance also and being able to do this manually would be a HUGE benefit.
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Melissa Wiebe
Agreed! This is one of the biggest things we have noticed would be helpful, in all views. Alphabetically or Numerically does not always work best, specifically when you have a lot of things to do on that one day and want to manually organize it by priority.
Caroline Johnson
Agreed! Being able to drag and drop tasks while still using "sorted by" filters. Or having the option to default to newly created or newly updated tasks at the top instead of at the bottom.
Matt van Roijen
Drag and drop is the easiest way for me to add a tas/subtask, using the Gantt view, seeing the critical path for a project sorted by start date. Currently, it can't be done while sorting by start date - although strangley, my work colleague can.
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Nick Shel
This is actually relatively easy to achieve. All you need to do append a sort_order column to the ORDER BY clause as the last column to sort by and that's the column you write the value to when doing the drag-drop. That way say you're sorting by DueDate or Priority and have lots of tasks with the same values the ordering by sort_order will show the tasks in the right order. Usually most people (like Jira) don't use numeric for sort_order but an alphanumeric that's like base 36 or even base 62, which makes the value shorter and allows you to do larger increments by default (like 10,000 or even 100,000 in base 10) and then when you do the drop you just set the sort_order value half way in between the value of the preceding and following tasks without having to adjust those values also.
Brian Seim
In the all spaced view or viewing an entire space. I would like to be able to move a task to the "Top" without using priority flags. Set up a working order for tasks to be done by my team members.
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Nicholas Dragotas
Drag & drop sorting of a list of tasks is very valuable when prioritizing the sequence of work of a large list of tasks (say 100). One could add a custom number field and then assign a number to each task but that can prove hard with a large number of tasks. Jira allows drag & drop sorting for both backlog list and board views for this very reason. Drag & drop sorting could apply when a list is 'unsorted' or maybe there is a 'manual sort' mode.