How to Search for Highly Voted Issues in JIRA
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Summary
This page explains how to search a JIRA instance for issues with the greatest number of votes.
Solution
Using Basic Search
Navigate to issue search
Construct a search for the issues you're interested in (e.g. all issues in a particular project)
Execute the search
Switch to list view
Click the "Columns" button on the right of the screen
Type "Votes" into the columns dialog search
Check the checkbox that appears
Click the "Done" button in the columns dialog
Click the "Votes" column that appeared in the results table to sort issues by number of votes
The issues with the greatest number of votes will be at the top of the table
Using JQL
Navigate to issue search
As above, click the "Columns" button on the right of the screen and add the "Votes"
Construct a search for the issues you're interested in (e.g. all issues in a particular project)
Execute the search
Switch to advanced mode
Add the following to the end of the search JQL:
ORDER BY votes DESC
Re-execute the search
The issues with the greatest number of votes will be at the top of the table
The "Votes" column may not be visible — to see the number of votes on each issue, follow the steps above
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