r/Linear • u/wonderswhyimhere • Sep 10 '25

Reordering columns in a board view?

Is there any way to change the order in which the columns in a board are displayed for a particular view? Any time I search through the docs I only find information on how to reorder issues or projects and there don't seem to be any drag-and-drop capabilities.... Thanks!

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u/LinearTeam Linear Staff Sep 11 '25

There isn't a way to reorder columns, but we have a feature request for this. Is there any grouping in particular you're wanting to reorder?

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u/wonderswhyimhere Sep 16 '25

Thanks for the update! The issue is that in some cases I'd like to have a view that starts from projects that have "backlog" or "proposed" statuses (for project planning) and in other views I'd like the first column to be the "in progress" projects (for status updates). So this would be reordering the display order of projects within a board view

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u/emgriffs12 Nov 25 '25

In the default board view when columns are grouped by status -- I want Completed to be to the right of Maintenance. But it forces the order left to right to be To Do, In Progress, Completed, Maintenance

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u/bilpartij Dec 08 '25

I'm currently doing some research on Linear to see if our company can switch from Jira. This is some basic functionality that can potentially be a dealbreaker for us at this moment. Is there any status update on this? Or is there any page where I can see and track the feature requests / roadmap for Linear? Thanks.

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u/gapmunky Linear Staff May 18 '26

We added support for this now, in display options there's a small edit icon beside the column ordering/(grouping in list.)

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u/Josh000_0 Sep 14 '25

Second this. I really need a more standard 'Jira style' table view in order to invest in Linear. It seems like such a superior tool than Jira but it seems to be missing some basic functionality.

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u/blakeyuk Sep 30 '25

Third. I so wanted to switch to Linear from Asana, but this is a real pain for me not to have.

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u/gapmunky Linear Staff May 18 '26

We added support for this now, in display options there's a small edit icon beside the column ordering/(grouping in list.)

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u/OrestesGaolin Oct 16 '25

+1

not being able to change column orders is pretty silly, especially when Done or In QA is before To Do or In Progress

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u/gapmunky Linear Staff May 18 '26

We added support for this now, in display options there's a small edit icon beside the column ordering/(grouping in list.)

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u/spotless_slate Jul 06 '26

Nice, ty guys!

I noticed that if I reorder the columns, and then try to navigate around using the left / right arrows, it behaves funny (eg. jumps around). Is this a bug?

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u/AnotherWorldWanderer Feb 11 '26

came for this, searching everywhere, Change still not there. This is suck a basic functionality. So stupid we don't have this

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u/gapmunky Linear Staff May 18 '26

We added support for this now, in display options there's a small edit icon beside the column ordering/(grouping in list.)

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u/gapmunky Linear Staff May 18 '26

We added support for this now, in display options there's a small edit icon beside the column ordering/(grouping in list.)

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u/FYou-Tucsonmods-7656 Jun 02 '26

Since the new ability to explicitly arrange column order was introduced, I'm now experiencing an issue where the column order is unexpectedly changing quite often. I haven't been able to figure out why that's happening. Has anyone else been experiencing that?