Manual Sort for Board View Within Lanes
Thursday, October 1, 2026
What it is
Drag and reorder cards within a lane in board view, not only between lanes. The order you set is shared with everyone on that view and persists.
Why it matters
Inside a pipeline stage the order of records carries meaning. Manual ordering surfaces the highest-priority deal or most urgent ticket without bending a sort rule to do it.
The Take
This one is live now, in both places on my screen, and it is my pick even though I did not want to be up. In board view you can drag and reorder cards within a lane, not just between lanes, and the order is shared with everyone on that view and sticks. I tried it on the show and it did not work at first, because the board was sorting by a property. Switch to manual sorting and then, ta-da, it drags.
The room's read is that this is great for pipeline review meetings. The companies with better sales results had sales leadership meeting regularly on exactly what is in the pipeline, and where a lot of teams fall down is doing that review from a spreadsheet. If this lets you run the review inside HubSpot and direct the team to the narrative you want them to take away, it earns its place. Chris took it into Will It Breeze on his tickets board, where the question was prioritizing work within the planned and in-progress lanes for a client portal. Breeze proposed uses per board and drew a distinction worth protecting: status is where the work stands, priority is how urgent it is, position is what to address next in this lane, and position should not become hidden business logic. It also found a numeric position-in-stage property on the ticket object with no description linking it to this update, which the team had created itself, so where HubSpot stores the manual order is still an open question.
Watch Us Discuss This
The full segment from the show, us working through this update start to finish.
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