Sort advanced search results by custom field

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Sort advanced search results by custom field. I don’t see that functionality. Am I alone?

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Note that I know how to get custom fields to show in the results - just can’t sort by them.

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Facing the same issue, I don’t think there’s any way to sort by any custom field in advanced search. I’m not able to sort by pre-defined fields such as Priority or Effort.

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There is not a way to sort by a custom field in a search as that search is pulling data from multiple projects that might not have that custom field. However you can use the advanced search to only find ones marked with a single select option such as High Priority tasks.

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Thanks, Danielle. Doesn’t seem like that should be a show-stopper, though . . . it can display the custom field, so seems like it should be able to sort by it. And . . . Wrike has that capability . . . many years ago.

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I agree this would be useful.

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I like to think we live in a day and age when this UI stuff is a no brainer… Everything you see should be sortable. Everything you see should be rearrangeable. Every field displayed should be customizable.

I realize its a ‘challenge’ on fields that could have different values per project (like Section for instance - which should also be a field we can see in the results)… but even such challenges are solvable - just choose the solution and make it happen.

Such a basic thing for a project management tool… give me a list of all tasks assigned to me (or maybe one of my subordinates), across all projects, sorted by priority, severity, and section (status).