We're updating our terminology in Jira

'Issue' is changing to 'work item'. You might notice some inconsistencies while this big change takes place.

Find recent issues

Use quick search to find items that you've worked on recently, like work items, projects, boards, queues, and more.

To use quick search:

  1. Select Search () in the navigation bar (or press / on your keyboard).

  2. Choose from recent items or type to search.

  3. Optionally, filter the search results by choosing a project or an assignee of a work item.

  4. Select an item or continue to View all work items (press enter on your keyboard).

Before you start typing, the quick search shows recent items you’ve worked with, like work items, projects, boards, queues, and filters.

Quick search scours for keywords, which are often first found in the Summary, Description or any text field of a work item. To broaden your search results, opt for advanced search. Read more.

You can perform this action with your keyboard via Jira’s command palette. Use command + K (for Mac) or Ctrl + K (for Windows) to open the command palette while you’re in Jira. Read more about Jira’s command palette

The quick search field also lets you search more than just text. Here are some smart query search commands you can use.

By default, smart queries will be turned off. To turn them on:

1. In the top right corner of your Jira site, select Settings > Personal settings
2. Scroll down to Jira labs > Quick search smart queries
3. Click the toggle to enable smart queries

Search Term

Description

Examples

my

Find work items assigned to me.

my open bugs

r:

Find work items reported by you, another user or with no reporter, using the prefix r: followed by a specific reporter term, such as me, a username or none.

Note that there can be no spaces between "r:" and the specific reporter term.

r:me — finds work items reported by you.
r:samuel — finds work items reported by the user whose username is "samuel".
r:none — finds work items with no reporter.

<project name>
or
<project key>

Find work items in a particular project.

test project
TST
tst

overdue

Find work items that were due before today.

overdue

created:
updated:
due:

Find work items with a particular Created, Updated, or Due Date using the prefixes created:updated:, or due:, respectively. For the date range, you can use todaytomorrowyesterday, a single date range (e.g. '-1w'), or two date ranges (e.g. '-1w,1w'). Note that date ranges cannot have spaces in them. Valid date/time abbreviations are: 'w' (week), 'd' (day), 'h' (hour), 'm' (minute).

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

<priority>

Find work items with a particular Priority.

blocker
major
trivial

<work type>

Find work items with a particular Work Type. Note that you can also use plurals.

bug
task
bugs
tasks

<resolution>

Find work items with a particular Resolution.

fixed
duplicate
cannot reproduce

<status>

Find work items with a particular Status.

To Do
Backlog
Open 

c:

Find work items with a particular Component(s). You can search across multiple components.

Note that there can be no spaces between "c:" and the component name.

c:security — finds work items with a component whose name contains the word "security".

v:

Find work items with a particular Affects Version(s). To find all work items belonging to a 'major' version, use the wildcard symbol '*'.

Note that there can be no spaces between "v:" and the version name.

v:3.0 — finds work items that match the following versions (for example):

  • 3.0

  • 3.0 eap

  • 3.0 beta

    ...but will not match against the following versions (for example):

  • 3.0.1

  • 3.0.0.4

    That is, it will match against any version that contains the string you specify followed immediately by a space, but not against versions that do not contain a space immediately after the string you specify.

ff:

Find work items with a particular Fix For Version(s). Same usage as v:(above).

 

*

Wildcard symbol '*'. Can be used with v: and ff:.

Smart queries do not need to be enabled to use this command.

v:3.2* — finds any work item whose version number is (for example):

  • 3.2

  • 3.2-beta

  • 3.2.1

  • 3.2.x

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