Sorting items in timeline interface

Hmm, looks like your screenshot isn’t showing up

So instead of it showing like this:

You want it to show like this?

If so I don’t think that’s possible I’m afraid and I’d suggest opening a support ticket to confirm!

I configured the timeline to sort by the WBS Sort field, yet the records are still arranged based on start date.

In the first screenshot including the Parent column, you can see that item 2294 (last line), which should appear directly below item 2224 (first line) according to the WBS hierarchy, is instead positioned below item 1627.

When I group by the WBS Sort field, the ordering becomes correct, but the visual result is not usable from an interface perspective (see second screenshot)

As it stands, there seems to be no way to enforce strict hierarchical ordering in the timeline view. This a known limitation i presume, but should this be considered a bug (field sort is not applied) ?

Ah that’s working as intended I think, the ‘Sort’ function will sort the records that are starting on the same date.  e.g. if you have 3 records A, B, C starting 1 Feb 2026, then it’d sort those 3 for you

As far as I know the Timeline view will always sort by earliest date first I’m afraid and so I’d recommend opening a support ticket to confirm that!

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As a workaround, perhaps you can try grouping by the first two sections of the WBS Sort field?  i.e. ‘007.010’ in this context?

Hello,
I implemented and tested grouping at level 2 (and other); however, it does not significantly improve the situation. Without proper sorting, I can’t use the timeline view, as it becomes too confusing to use.