I am trying to search on text field for values that start with +

[Sonya Goldstein]

I know that the field contains values that start with "+" since i have seen these in broad search looking for field not empty.  However when I type:

project = DFS AND created >= 2018-06-01 AND "Cisco Session Call IDs" ~ "\\+\\*"

it returns no results.

[Andy Heinzer]

Jira's native searching has a limitation in this regard, namely, Whole word only.  As such there is a problem with trying to search for a single special character like this.  Jira alone can't effectively do this in JQL today.

However you could use a plugin like Adaptavist's Scriptrunner in order to gain access to a regex searcher for issue fields in Jira.  If you used this plugin, you could then use a JQL search such as

issueFunction in issueFieldMatch("project = DFS AND created >= 2018-06-01", "Cisco Session Call IDs", "\\+")

Details on this function are in https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/jql-functions.html#_issuefieldmatch

It is also possible that there might be other plugin solutions on our Marketplace site: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/