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Actually looking at it, probably the easiest thing to do would be to use the group by functionality already in the system to group the subtasks

Add "Parent Task" column to the issues list. Sort on parent task column. An arrow is placed for subtasks of a parent and grouped under it.

Aha, that is perfect, just what I want. Apart from the fact that we have to have the parent task column visible which takes up a lot of space we would rather use for other stuff.

A way to get this exact layout without having to have the parent task column visible would be perfect.

there's related task #5275

Jeffrey Lee

What you are trying to do is possible in Redmine 1.0.3. You need to create a custom query that sorts by parent task without adding the parent task column to the list. Here's how to do it:

Above the issues list, there should be 3 buttons: Apply, Clear and Save. These buttons refer to the filters and other options above them. When you click on save, it takes you to the New Query page.

*Name your query (e.g. Sort by Parent Task)
*Tick Public, All projects and Default columns
*Select "Parent Task" in the first drop-down under the "Sort" section, then "Ascending" in the next drop-down to the right
*Add any other sorts or filters (sorting by Priority and/or date submitted is probably useful)
*Click Save

Now this query will be the default view for all issue lists, and hopefully for all users (I haven't tried logging as a different user).

Update: the custom query is available to all users, but is not selected by default. Also, I don't know how to edit or delete a custom query once it has been created. I'm sure it's possible.

In order to sort by parent task and task id by default (which makes the subtask tree appear) in app/controllers/issues_controller.rb find index method and change

sort_init(@query.sort_criteria.empty? ? [['id', 'desc']] : @query.sort_criteria)

sort_init(@query.sort_criteria.empty? ? [['root_id', 'desc'], ['id', 'desc']] : @query.sort_criteria)

Patch applies correctly for me. This is an extremely handy feature.

+1
arthur me wrote:

Patch applies correctly for me. This is an extremely handy feature.

Thanks for that path. It is very useful.
But i have one question: If i set another sort column i can not reset this settings to default sort order.
In my opinion it is useful to reset also the sort setting if i click on "Reset" on top of the list. This button clears all setting except the sort settings.
Is this possible?

Isn't this issue a duplicate of #5325?

+1

Mischa The Evil wrote:

Isn't this issue a duplicate of #5325?

No, it's not. This issue is about sorting tickets, #5325 is about grouping tickets.

Tomasz Sawicki wrote:

Attached patch for 1.3.1 adding root_id desc to default sort order.

Is there an easy way to do this for other sorting? Sorting by root_id first seems to invalidate/break secondary sorts.