Re: Bug: org-agenda-sorting-strategy priority has no effect [9.3.7 (9.3.7-16-g521d7f-elpaplus @ /Users/devil/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20200803/)]

[Kyle Meyer]

Adam Faryna writes:

> org-agenda-sorting-strategy priority sorting doesn't work in my setup.
> I have a single file for all the tasks for agenda. Its structure looks 
> similar to
> this:
>
> # -*- mode: org; mode: my/org-agenda-appt -*-
>
> #+STARTUP: overview
> #+CATEGORY: Tasks
> #+ARCHIVE: ../archive/tasks_archive.org::
>
> * Tasks
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: Single
> :END:
> ** TODO task 1
> ** TODO task 2
>
> * Repeatable
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: Repeat
> :END:
> ** TODO task 3
> ** TODO task 4
[...]
> The agenda show records with different priorities totally mixed up. When I run
> agenda with org-agenda-sorting-strategy set to just priority-up it
> doesn't change anything.

None of the entries in your example have priorities (or, effectively,
they are all have the same priority, B).  Here's how you'd mark a
heading as a priority A heading:

    ** TODO [#A] task 1

See the (info "(org)Priorities") node in the manual for more details.