2. Finding the elusive issue
Mastering search in JIRA
John Sloat
Product Marketing Specialist, Atlassian
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3. Agenda
1. Types of Search
2. Quick Search in Action
3. Adding to Queries
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4. 3 ways to search
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5. Most powerful search ever
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6. Searching with Quick Search
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7. What Can Quick Search Do?
Jump to Issues
Smart Search
Free Text Search
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8. Quick Search Saves You Time
Itʼs everywhere.
Less keystrokes.
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9. “bugs” “my” “open”
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10. “NERD” “unresolved” “r:me”
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11. Smart Search Shorthand
• r: reporter
• my • c: component
• me • v: affects version
• ff: fix version
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12. “bugs” “unresolved” “my” “ff:*Sprint*”
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13. Character Count
Query Characters
my open bugs 12
20%
assignee = currentUser() AND status = Open AND issuetype = Bug 62
r:me unresolved JIRA 20
28%
project = JIRA AND resolution = Unresolved AND reporter = currentUser() 71
my unresolved bugs ff:*Sprint* 31
issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() 20%
AND fixVersion in ("1.4 Sprint 1", "Sprint 1.1", "Sprint 3", "Sprint 2", "Sprint 1") 157
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14. “ Using JIRA's Quick Search is a shortcut to creating
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complex JQL filters.
#summit11
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15. More Quick Search
atlss.in/QSearch
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16. Building on Queries
issuetype = Bug AND resolution = Unresolved AND assignee = currentUser() AND
fixVersion in (“1.4 Sprint 1”, “Sprint 1.1”, “Sprint 3”, “Sprint 2”, “Sprint 1”)
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17. “Was” Operator
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
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18. Relative Dates
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()
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19. Relative Versions
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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20. More JQL
atlss.in/JQLSearch
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21. Questions?
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