Reordering tasks

Have you tried adding a number to the front of your tasks name.

Does this mean that there isn't a way to reorder by drag and drop? Having to number tasks that may need to be reordered many times defeats the purpose of using an automated solution.

@Geoffrey Hey, welcome to Wrike Community 🙂

When sorting tasks by priority in the List View, you can drag and drop tasks to change their priority: the closer a task is to the top of the list, the higher its priority. The order of tasks stays the same if you navigate to another folder or project and then get back 

Please let me know if that's what you were looking for 🙌

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I am having this issue, as well. I have 43 tasks in my project section (no dates have yet been determined, just the task order). I created them in the correct order, and then they got rearranged. I went back, sorted by priority in Table View, and put them back in their proper order. When I navigate away and back again, they are once again out of order! 

@Sara Hey, thanks for reaching out 🙂 

If you manually drag and drop tasks to reorder them by priority in the List View, the order will be there when you navigate away - just pick the sort by priority again and the order will be the same. I get the feeling that it might not have been the same for you when you navigated back to it because you didn't choose "by priority" again. Please let me know if that's not the case, we'll discuss it further 🙌

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Apparently it's a known bug. I opened a Request Ticket and that was the update I received... hopefully something that is resolved soon! It breaks at 38 tasks, which isn't an unreasonable number :/

My ticket has been resolved and priority is now staying as I ordered. Yay!

@Sara happy to hear that 🙂 

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If all tasks are given the same priority, but they need to be ordered, is it still not possible to drag and drop to change the order? Kind of a fundamental need. Aside from brute-forcing by prepending a number, how else can this be done?

Update: It looks like dragging/dropping does reorder, but it does not update the display. Refresh and it does show the update so it looks like there's a caching issue.

Thanks for reaching out Michael Snyder. Please let me know if you'd like to discuss this with our Support team, I'll be happy to raise a ticket for you 🙂

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Thanks Lisa.

Hi all, I still have this issue. I can't use drag and drop to move tasks around. all have normal priority. Do you have any suggestion how to solve this?

Hi Aoufa Sellami, welcome to the Community 👋 

I've asked our Support team to look into your question 👍 They will be in touch soon. 

Please feel free to share the solution here in the thread! 

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Hi all -- I am having the same sorting issue. Any solutions?

Hi Amanda Tomaselli, our Support team should be able to help with this. I've just raised a ticket 👍

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Is there a drag and drop option to put tasks into a specific order yet?  I tried to number them but task 20 is coming between task 2 and 3 and not after task 19.  That doesn't help what I am trying to accomplish.

Aaron Scott In the Table View (old or new) you can grab the row, using the numbered row on the left - it will turn into dots and you can drag and drop wherever in the schedule to reorder/prioritize it. Priority no longer takes numbering into account in the New Table View. Priority is based solely on last created now, which makes no sense to me, but that's what I learned when I opened a ticket on priority being all messed up. I still use Old Table View predominantly.

I just ran into this same issue. If you go to Classic Table as an option, the drag and drop works there. It wasn't working in the main one.

Hi Alec Beck, welcome to the Community and thank you for bringing your case to our attention. May I kindly ask you to elaborate a bit on your case so that we can provide you with an accurate reply?

Thank you!

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I'm having the same issue.

In the table view, tasks are sorted alphabetically, but when I access the project directly, they appear in the correct order (how I created). Could you assist with this issue?

Many thanks,

Hi Mariana Ayroza, welcome to the Community! Have you tried changing the sorting to Priority?

Hi @..., I cant see this option "priority".

Hi Mariana Ayroza, click on and you will see other options, then select Priority.

You can now re-order task as you want 

Hi Pietro,

Thank you for your response. Adjusting the client to the "Priority" setting did resolve the issue. However, it also rearranged the order of the other projects in a way I did not intend. I'm aiming to change only this specific project's order. Is there a way to ensure the order remains as initially selected within the project (as shown in part 2 of the first image I shared)?

Hey Mariana Ayroza! Priority sorting allows you to manually sort your items in the order you want. So I would suggest sorting manually to get the order you want and it will pertain any time you switch to priority sorting. I hope this helps! 

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We're rolling out Wrike across our agency and I am experiencing this same problem. I have to populate dozens of blueprints and so far there has not been an efficient way for me to enter them. Thank you for your help.

I am also having this issue and Priority is NOT what I need - because that is how we need them worked by status and not the order of the items to complete the work flow.  On one folder I was able to get this ordered as I need them.  But on the other folder it's not working and creating a folder to help order them isn't working either.

This is where it worked:

This is where it's failing:

Please find a solution for this.  Ordering these items is critical to implementation.

Hi Ann Smith, welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your support for this suggestion here 👍

Hello Sunnie Lewis, thank you for your detailed feedback and for adding screenshots to your comment, I've passed this info to our Product Team.

We will keep you updated if there are any changes!

Any updated guys? this is the maybe the only one blocker for me to subscribe. 

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