Enable Projects to sort by priority in Gantt Charts

Gantt chart view works similar to the old Table view. The Gantt chart view remains unchanged with the introduction to Wrike Lightspeed, meaning project sorting by priority is still not available. Projects and folders are sorted alphanumerically when sorting by priority and the priority sorting applies only to tasks.

It just makes sense that this new functionality should be brought to lightspeed so that Gantt charts and Table views behave the same way. Can you do this?

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Elizaveta Bogdanova

Welcome to the Community @Caleb Scharf 👋 I understand your point, and our team is planning to work on enhancing Gantt Charts after all work is done with the New Table view 👍 We'll keep you posted.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

Marco Nipkow

Hello everyone,

I don't quite understand sorting by "priority". I always thought it would sort the tasks according to importance (low, normal, high). But this is not the case. Can someone explain to me the logic by which Wrike sorts these tasks. As an example, please watch the screenshot.

Juan Muttoni

Hello @Marco Nipkow, thank you for your question. When you sort by priority, the newest task created is added at the bottom of your view. The reasoning behind this view's naming is that you can manually rearrange your tasks (via drag and drop), with tasks located at the top having the highest priority and those located at the bottom, the lowest.

Please, let us know if you have any more questions 👍

Marco Nipkow

This means that the term is not entirely accurate. A more correct term would be "sort by creation time".
The manual sorting was understandable and should also be regarded as a special point due to the dash. The upper points sort automatically.
Did I understand that correctly, @[Deleted User] ?

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Marco Nipkow, thank you for your feedback, I've shared it with our Product Team 👍

Yes, you are correct, parent items - projects and folders - are reordered automatically. Please, let us know if you have any additional questions.

Brian Hyson

I agree with @Caleb Scharf.

I want to use Priority sorting in my projects, but I can't if I want to get any value out of the Gantt chart because my folders don't honor the priority that I assigned to them in the Table view - it makes the Gantt chart view very confusing. The only way to make the Gantt chart usable is to prefix projects/folders 01., 02., 03., etc in order to force the sort order and that's isn't realistic if I have to manually change those numbers any time a folder is added/deleted/moved.

Juan Muttoni

Hi @Brian Hyson, welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your support to this suggestion, I've shared your use case with our Product Team and we'll keep you updated if there are any changes implemented.

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 🙂

Please, let us know if there's anything else we can help you with 👍

Jayne Strickland

This sorting capability in the Gantt charts is still an issue today in April 2025...a year and a half after it was raised. I am a new user and immediately have found this lack of sorting by priority set in the Table view carrying over to Gantt view. This is very disappointing. I agree with previous commenter that adding numbers is not sustainable because we are constantly adjusting things around and this creates even more work. Is there another fix or update for the Gantt function so it carries the priority over from the Table?

Rohan V

Thank you, @Jayne Strickland, for sharing your issue here. We will consult with the relevant team, and if there are any further updates, we will let you know 👍

Rohan V

Hey @Jayne Strickland, just a quick update: Priority sorting works the same way in both table view and the New Gantt chart. Please give it a try and let us know if you have any other questions!