How to loop through subitems' ids of an item of a board using API

[codyfrisch (Cody)]

Unfortunately, item order is not something the API returns reliably. Esp. for subitems.

Its been a long standing feature request here… i may be partial to having this too, and in the new API I am hoping that they will implement it (version 2024-01 I hope. 2023-10 is already pretty set in stone) I don’t think its possible there in 2023-10 though we do have the ability to get items returned ordered by a column’s values. So for example if you have them by sorted by a date, then you’re gold - but if you rely on the dragged order then nothing yet.

Expose board order value on items/subitems

There must be a “board order” value on items and subitems thats used to by the main table (unsorted) view to sort the items. Could this be exposed to us in the API? This way we can sort an items list into the board order, but more importantly if we get subitems, get their order and sort them. It seems when item IDs are not specified, the items are returned in board order usually. But not items.subitems or if you specify an array of items to get - those come back in random order.