With the 2.3 release, Mingle introduces a new concept called Card Ranking. Before card ranking was introduced, cards were sorted by card number descending order in the grid view. Card ranking will allow users to use the grid view to simulate a physical card wall by positioning cards the way you want to organize them.

We believe that Card rankings are meaningful in the context of many cards. With this concept Mingle allows users to express the subjective importance between cards. For example, if a project manager feels that Card A is more important than Card B or needs to be developed first, she can position Card A above Card B in grid view.

Rank is the default selection for the Sort by menu in grid view. Therefore all cards displayed in the grid view are sorted by their current card rank when you first come to the grid view. To change a card's rank you need to explicitly turn on ranking mode. This is to prevent users from changing card rankings accidentally by making their current ranking mode more obvious.

You can rank a card by dragging and dropping just like how you've been managing cards in grid view. Once the ranking mode is on, you can drag and drop cards as you want. You will notice that the blue card rank indicator will be provided as you move cards. This card rank indicator shows where this moving card will be dropped so that it is easier for you to know how this card will be ranked.

In the example below, the business analyst Britney opens her story wall grid view, and notices that card number #11 was critical (red color) but was ranked at the bottom of the 'In Analysis' lane, so she turns on the ranking mode in grid view.

She now drags card number #11 and drops it at the top of the lane.