Get Rank attribute using Rally API

Question

Is it possible to get Rank attribute when fetching goals, initiatives, features, and user stories? I would like to order every of these levels by its own order property. E.g. if I'm displaying Goals, I want to order them by Rank property, or if I'm displaying user stories I would like to order those by their own Rank (not by Rank of Goals that they belong to).

Is that possible, and how should I do that? Here's my snippet of fetching features:

 async.map(goals, function(goal, cb) {
  self.restApi.query({
    type: 'portfolioitem/initiative',
    limit: Infinity,
    order: 'Rank',
    ref: goal.Children,
    fetch: ['FormattedID', 'Name', 'Children', 'Parent', 'Rank']
  }, cb);
 }, function (err, results) {
   // do something       
 });

How I should access that Rank property later? Looks like it is contained in DragAndDropRank.

Answer 1

There is no Rank field. Instead use DragAndDropRank, which is alphanumeric string, for example:

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You may sort by it:

order: 'DragAndDropRank'

and there is no need to fetch it if all you need is to sort by it. The format of it does not lend itself to a meaningful display.