The interface for reordering items is extremely slow. It seems to be a large load on the browser to reorder items and also can only be done one at a time, requiring the server to ACK the request before you can begin dragging another item to a new position.
The reordering operations should be queued up and processed in the background allowing for mass reordering without breaking workflow.
The client-side code should also be optimized to be as fast as possible.
This is especially painful on large pages such as the ones seen in product planning with backlog items.
by: Robert W. | over a year ago | User Interface
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I would also love a "move to page" capability as part of this enhancement so that I can easily add a new backlog item and move it up to, for example, the top of page 3 (items 51-75).
Near-instantaneous updates on drag-n-drop ranking within a page is available in the Summer 2009 Release. Take a look and let us know if you have other ideas (i.e. the cross-page idea suggested by Dan). We can look at that as a future addition, so feel free to enter a new idea for it.