Mastering search in JIRA

John SloatProduct Marketing Specialist, Atlassian

Finding the elusive issue

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1. Types of Search2. Quick Search in Action3. Adding to Queries

Agenda

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3 ways to search

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Most powerful search ever

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Searching with Quick Search

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What Can Quick Search Do?

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Jump to Issues

Free Text Search

Smart Search

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Quick Search Saves You Time

Itʼs everywhere.

Less keystrokes.

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“bugs” “my” “open”

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“NERD” “unresolved” “r:me”

• r: reporter• c: component• v: affects version• ff: fix version

Smart Search Shorthand

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• my• me

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“bugs” “unresolved” “my” “ff:*Sprint*”

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Query Characters

my open bugs 12

assignee = currentUser() AND status = Open AND issuetype = Bug 62

r:me unresolved JIRA 20

project = JIRA AND resolution = Unresolved AND reporter = currentUser() 71

my unresolved bugs ff:*Sprint* 31issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() AND fixVersion in ("1.4 Sprint 1", "Sprint 1.1", "Sprint 3", "Sprint 2", "Sprint 1") 157

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Character Count

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Using JIRA's Quick Search is a shortcut to creating

complex JQL filters.“ ”

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More Quick Search

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Building on Queries

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issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() AND fixVersion in (“1.4 Sprint 1”, “Sprint 1.1”, “Sprint 3”, “Sprint 2”, “Sprint 1”)

“Was” Operator

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issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() AND fixVersion in (“1.4 Sprint 1”, “Sprint 1.1”, “Sprint 3”, “Sprint 2”, “Sprint 1”) AND status was “In Progress” AND status = Open

Relative Dates

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issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() AND fixVersion in (“1.4 Sprint 1”, “Sprint 1.1”, “Sprint 3”, “Sprint 2”, “Sprint 1”) AND status was “In Progress” AND status = Open AND updated > startOfMonth()

startOfDay() startOfWeek() startOfMonth() startOfYear()endOfDay() endOfWeek() endOfMonth() endOfYear()

Relative Versions

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issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() AND fixVersion in (“1.4 Sprint 1”, “Sprint 1.1”, “Sprint 3”, “Sprint 2”, “Sprint 1”) AND status was “In Progress” AND status = Open AND updated > startOfMonth() AND fixVersion = earliestUnreleasedVersion(“Angry Nerds”)

earliestUnreleasedVersion(project)

latestReleasedVersion(project)

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Questions?

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