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Using JIRA's Quick Search

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Sometimes you just want to be able to get to the particular issue that you are interested in. Other times you can't remember what the issue was, but you remember that it was an open issue, assigned to you. Quick Search can help you.

Jump to an Issue

The Quick Search box is located at the top right of your screen. If you type in the key of an issue, you will jump straight to that issue. For example, if you type in 'ABC-107' (or 'abc-107'), and press the Enteryou will be redirected to the JIRA issue 'ABC-107'.

In many cases, you do not even need to type in the full key, but just the numerical part. If you are currently working on the 'ABC' project, and you type in '123', you will be redirected to 'ABC-123'.

Smart Querying

Quick Search also enables you to perform 'smart' searches with minimal typing. For example, to find all the open bugs in the 'TEST' project, you could simply type 'test open bugs', and Quick Search would locate them all for you.

Your search results will be displayed in the Issue Navigator, where you can view them in a variety of useful formats (Excel, XML, etc).

The search terms that Quick Search recognises are:

Issues assigned to me: You can use the keyword 'my', as in 'my open bugs'.

Issues in a particular project: To find all issues in a project, type the project name, e.g. 'test', or the project key, e.g. 'TST' (or 'tst').

Overdue issues: You can use the keyword 'overdue' to search for issues that were due before today.

Issues with a particular Created, Updated, or Due Date

You can find issues with certain dates. You can use the prefix created:, updated:, or due:. For the date range, you can use today, tomorrow, yesterday, a single date range (eg '-1w'), or two date ranges (eg. '-1w,1w'). Note that date ranges cannot spaces in them. Valid date/time abbreviations are: 'w' (week), 'd' (day), 'h' (hour), 'm' (minute).

Some examples:

'created:today'
'created:yesterday'
'updated:-1w' — issues updated in the last week
'due:1w' — issues due in the next week.
'due:-1d,1w' — all issues due from yesterday to next week.
'created:-1w,-30m' — all issues created from one week ago, to 30 minutes ago.
'created:-1d updated:-4h' — all issues created in the last day, updated in the last 4 hours.

Issues with a particular Status: You can use the name of any status in your search, e.g. 'open', 'closed'.

Issues with a particular Resolution: You can use a resolution name to search for issues with a particular resolution, e.g. type 'duplicate' to search for all issues that have a resolution of "Duplicate". You can also use the keyword 'unresolved' to find all issues that do not yet have a resolution.

Issues with a particular Priority: You can type a priority name to search for issues with a particular pririty, e.g. 'blocker'.

Issues of a particular Issue Type: You can use the type of an issue in the search. Examples include bug, task. Note that you can also include plurals, such as bugs.

Issues with a particular Version: You can use the prefix "v:" to search for issues with a particular version(s). This allows you to search across multiple versions. "v:3.0" will search for all issues with a version that contains the word "3.0".

Issues with a particular Fix For Version: You can use the prefix "ff:" to search for issues with a particular fix for version(s). This allows you to search across multiple versions. "ff:enterprise" will search for all issues with a fix for version that contains the word enterprise. Note that there can be no spaces between "ff:" and the version name.

Note

In Mozilla-based browsers, try creating a bookmark with URL http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=%s (substituting in your JIRA URL) and keyword 'j'. Now typing 'j my open bugs' in the browser URL bar will search JIRA for your open bugs.

Free-text searching

You can search for any word within the issue(s) you are looking for, provided the word is in one of the following fields:

Summary
Description
Environment
Comments

Note that, unlike the keywords listed under 'Smart Querying' above, free-text search works in both the Quick Search box and the Issue Filter Text Search box.

Note

Note that you can combine free-text and keywords together. For example, 'my closed tst tasks', 'open test bugs pear', 'closed test bugs ' are all valid search queries.