Locking Sorting
Our team is getting more and more frustrated using Wrike. When we create a project with multiple tasks, the task order shouldn't change if we change views, it should remain how they are created unless sorted (and even so they should be able to revert back to how they were created).
Here is the dream:
1. Create tasks and subtasks in list view. Ideally you would update this so that when I create tasks in order that they need to be completed it creates task as 1, 2, 3 and not 3, 2,1. For example, if I'm thinking through a list of subtasks, I create them as I walk through the tasks in my mind. But when you add tasks back to back in Wrike, it puts the most recent task you create on the top of the list instead of under the first task you created. So basically you have to re-order them or think backwards.
2. Switch to Timeline view and have the exact same order. This is crucial, stop changing the order of my tasks. Then I can meet with my team and assign people/dates go through step by step what needs to be done without having to re-sort again and again.
3. Update the arranging of tasks so that it's easier to drag and drop on the left side of the timeline view. Right now you have to annoyingly click the task then click it again and try to drag it to where you want it, and usually it doesn't go where you want it. You also can't drag a subtask to the top of the subtask list, it just kicks it out of the task.
Please tell me we are the only team extremely frustrated with these limiting/frustrating sorting features that make something that should be a simple task to create a nightmare and take 10x as long.
Welcome to the Community Graciela Hernandez 👋
I\ve asked my colleagues to reach out to you about this to troubleshoot, and I can see this is now resolved 🙂
Please do let me know if you need help with anything else!
Lisa Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Torne-se um especialista em Wrike com o Wrike Discover
Lisa Wrike Team member Torne-se um especialista em Wrike com o Wrike Discover
It's 2023 and this is still an issue. Changing views or coming back to a project after closing the window reorders all of the tasks. It's confusing my team immensely and we are regretting having paid for an annual plan...
Item order should NOT change unless a specific sort button is pressed. This is a simple dev task - just add an "order" column to the database. If items are subtaks, then start the order back at 0 and sort the sub list individually.
Hi Kellen Rosburg welcome to the Community and thank you for bringing your case to us. May I please ask you to elaborate on which views are you using? This way, we'll be able to provide you with an accurate reply 👍
Also, I'd like to mention that you can check our New to Community forum to discover all the resources you can find in our Community 🙂
Thank you!
It looks like this is still an issue. Can someone update me on if I am missing something? I find it very concerning that alphabetical is forced on you and was never thought as a bad idea for project management. Make it an option but if 7 tasks happen on the same day, it is crazy to have to start numbering tasks in name, not to mention it looks unprofessional. I don't want to use Gantt Chart I want to use my table view.
Hi Steven Valinski, welcome to the Community! You have several different sorting options in the New Table view. It seems that you are sorting your tasks by title, is this correct? You can sort your tasks by basically any column displayed in the view:
Additionally, you can change the order to ascending or descending:
Is this what you were looking for?
We found the best way to deal with this was to sort by start date and a combination of a. b. c . that brought it back in order. Not ideal, but there should be a "sort by task creation order".
Hi Adam Reusche, forgive me if I'm missing something here, but have you tried sorting by creation date by adding more filters and choosing created date?
Let me know if we can be of further assistance here 👍
Elaine Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Torne-se um especialista em Wrike com o Wrike Discover
Elaine Wrike Team member Torne-se um especialista em Wrike com o Wrike Discover
Hi Elaine, that's a good solution. I also ended up discovering that if you sort by priority and all of the tasks are at the same priority, then the order you place them in is maintained when you resort the list and come back to it.
I'll give your solution a shot on a new project I have to build out.
Great stuff Adam Reusche, let us know if you need help with anything else 👍
Elaine Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Torne-se um especialista em Wrike com o Wrike Discover
Elaine Wrike Team member Torne-se um especialista em Wrike com o Wrike Discover